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Spotlight on Transforming Delivery at Insights25
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Dominic Herrington, HMPPS Executive Director for Transforming Delivery Directorate (TDD) outlines how you can learn more about what HMPPS is doing to transform delivery at Insights25
Spotlight on Professional Standards and Behaviour at Insights25
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Sam Clifton, Head of Professional Standards and Behaviour (PSB) Group in HMPPS talks about why professional standards and behaviour is important and how you can learn more about it at Insights25
3Pillars supporting Insights25
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Peter McIntyre is the General Manager at the 3Pillars project and a qualified psychotherapist and armed forces veteran with a particular interest in reaching out to people with compassion and empathy to assist, advise, counsel and mentor them so they can see themselves from a new perspective.
From Glass House to Class Act
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Vincent Kelly is a custodial manager at HMP Wormwood Scrubs with over 25 years of experience of working in the closed estate. Here he describes a visit to the Military Corrective Training Centre (MCTC- formerly known as “The Glasshouse”) where he cast an expert eye across some of the excellent work taking place there, built some bridges and used this to benefit learning in HMPPS.
From Coffee and Curiosity to Career: How the Insights Festival Shaped My Path
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Reflections of an 18-year HMPPS staff member on how attending an Insights Festival event shaped and developed a career.
Developing prison culture through Participatory Action Research: Findings from a new research study
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Following up on the previous blog, Dr Rachel Gibson talks us through working with two prisons to develop their culture, using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, and what this research suggests for prisons wanting to use PAR to develop their culture.
Loneliness within the Criminal Justice System
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At an upcoming Insights event, Sarah McKnight, Deputy Director for Employment, Skills and Education in HMPPS and Marie-Elise Howells, Deputy Director for Volunteering and Tackling Loneliness at the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), will talk us through why it is very important that we consider how loneliness and its negative effects may be exacerbated for people serving time in prison or on community sentences.
Event Recording: watch it back. Why HMPPS is moving towards Recovery-Oriented Systems to tackle drug and alcohol use
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Mike Wheatley, Head of Drug and Alcohol Group in HMPPS, reflects on our hugely successful, interesting and informative event on 5th March.
Why HMPPS is moving towards Recovery-Oriented Systems to tackle drug and alcohol use
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Mike Wheatley talks us through what this means for HMPPS and our partners and invites you to register for our exciting panel event on 5th March with Keynote Speaker Professor David Best Ph.d., which delves deeper into the issues and supporting evidence.
Welcome to our refreshed HMPPS Insights website!
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A welcome from Nic Bellamy, Head of Insights, HMPPS Evidence and Insights