Early bird Frontline Pass tickets are now live!
We are delighted to bring you a diverse and exciting programme with hundreds of events and opportunities for staff once again for the Insights25 Festival.
Taking place 17th-28th November, events are free to attend and are open to all staff who work in the Criminal Justice System.
Insights25 is a peer-led Festival and a fantastic opportunity for staff to visit and experience different parts of the justice system, develop professional skills and networks, share learning, and celebrate success.
Frequently asked questions
To improve access to Festival tickets for operational staff without regular access to IT, we are delighted to bring back the Frontline Pass.
The Frontline Pass is for all staff who work in an operational setting (for example prison, probation office, court, approved premises, unpaid work) who deliver, or support, frontline services and interventions. This includes managers and administration staff who are based at operational sites.
The Frontline Pass provides staff with early bird access to Festival tickets two weeks ahead of general release to wider criminal justice staff.
Head to our ticketing platform to register for your Frontline Pass before 16 September. You will receive a membership code to access early bird tickets on the Insights website from 1st September.
Please sign up with a work / organisation email address only (e.g. justice.gov.uk) to help with vetting. Only one pass permitted per person.
Looking to spread the word about the Frontline Pass at your place of work? Download a copy of the poster.
Yes – general release tickets will be available from 9am on Tuesday 16 September, and most events are open to anybody working within the Criminal Justice System.
After heading to our ticket page, you can either browse the full list of Insights25 events, or search via event theme, type or location.
Insights25 is smaller and more tightly focussed on the strategic aim of empowering, enabling and looking after our people who work across the criminal justice sector and celebrating their important work.
You can attend a range of evidence-based practice sessions, behind the scenes tours, project showcases and shadowing opportunities focussed around:
– wellbeing
– positive culture
– effective leadership
– professional development
– diversity and inclusion
and of course our exciting VIP experiencesto go behind the scenes and gain access to exclusive locations across the justice system, or mentoring and coaching from senior leaders.
There really is something for everyone and more events are being added daily!
Learn more about the Insights Festival…
The Insights Festival is an award-winning programme of events which aims to showcase the breadth of innovative work taking place across prison, probation, youth services, voluntary sector and wider justice services.
While we await the next festival, we will continue to deliver a programme of online panel events throughout 2024 which aim to bring:
- evidence, data and insight to life, and support staff to apply it to decision making and practice
- leading academics, policy, operational staff, partners and people with lived experience together to discuss key findings from research, how this can be applied on the frontline, and share good practice
If you have an idea for a panel event, please contact us.

Insights blog archive
Reflections from Insights Festival events, recordings and guest blogs from authors across MoJ and the wider Criminal Justice System.
Insights event recordings
Find out more about our online event recordings and watch past festival events at our YouTube channel.