Clinks Light Lunch | Issue 555 | 5th October 2018

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In this week's edition...

CLINKS VACANCY: Treasurer

Clinks is seeking an enthusiastic and committed individual to become our Treasurer. With the other trustees, the Treasurer will help lead the organisation and build on the solid foundations of our existing work. They will bring financial and human resources skills and knowledge to assist our staff and trustees and help ensure Clinks’ continuing financial resilience and compliance with legal and procedural requirements, as well as ensuring the organisation is well managed. If you are interested in this role please send a copy of your CV and a supporting letter, saying why you are interested in this role and what you would bring to it, for the attention of Rachael Byrne, Vice-Chair c/o anne.fox@clinks.org

CLINKS BLOG: talking about small charities

In this guest blog Emma Wells, National Secretary at Community Chaplaincy Association, talks about her reasons for recently joining the Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group (RR3) and what she hopes it can achieve. Emma has experience and expertise in working with small voluntary organisations, having worked both in prisons and in the community with prisoners and their families, and brings this to her role on the RR3. The RR3 is a platform for leaders from the voluntary sector to engage with the Ministry of Justice, chaired by Clinks. Find out more here

CLINKS EVENT: working with women in the criminal justice system

Do you run services designed for women in the criminal justice system? This event [13th November, Liverpool, £15 members/£30 non-members], in partnership with Agenda, is for CEOs and project managers. At this forum, Clare Jones will talk about getting closer to shared purpose commissioning. Clare is an independent consultant with 20 years of experience working nationally to promote better service design and delivery for women facing multiple disadvantages. She will introduce ways of working with commissioners to find shared purpose that will enable collaborative, relational and integrated approaches to commissioning women-centred services. Find out more and book here

CLINKS MEMBER'S NEWS: vulnerable children and drug smuggling

St Giles Trust has published a scoping report into county lines, which finds that although awareness is growing, full understanding and identification of the phenomenon and the aspect of exploitation of vulnerable children seems very variable across and within different geographical areas and organisations. It is linked to an evaluation report, which looked into the six-month Home Office-funded County Lines Demonstration Pilot St Giles Trust delivered in Kent helping vulnerable young people out of county line activity. Find out more here

CLINKS MEMBER'S NEWS: sentencing young adults

A report entitled Sentencing Young Adults: Making the case for sentencing principles for young adults from The Howard League and Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance argues that formal sentencing principles for young adults aged 18 to 25, similar to the Sentencing Council guidelines in place for children, would assist the courts and improve sentencing outcomes. The report draws on Howard League's participation work with young adults and sets out how principled guidelines would help judges and magistrates to understand young adults better, and provide a legal framework to achieve better sentencing decisions. Read the report here

CLINKS MEMBER'S NEWS: preventing hepatitis

Adfam has published a booklet designed to support the families of people diagnosed with hepatitis C deal with the emotional, practical and financial realities. In 2015, hepatitis C was the most common infection amongst people who inject drugs. Around two in five people who inject drugs are living with chronic hepatitis C. Read the booklet here

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: Victims' Strategy

The government has launched its first cross-departmental victims’ strategy. The strategy aims to strengthen the support that victims can access, commits to delivering a victims’ law, and intends to make victims feel better acknowledged, understood and protected in the criminal justice system. The government will consult on the detail of a victims' code and a victims' law, which will underpin the code. Proposals include strengthening compliance and the powers of the Victims’ Commissioner to better hold the government to account. Find out more here

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: probation inspections

HM Inspectorate of Probation will be conducting an inspection of probation services in South Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company during the weeks commencing 26th November, 3rd December and 10th December 2018. If you have any queries about this, please contact crcinspections@hmiprobation.gov.uk

FUNDING: Light Lunch correction

Please note the correct link for the Tampon Tax Community Fund featured in Light Lunch last week can be found here

FUNDING: mental health research

The Wolfson Foundation has a £10 million funding competition to support novel and outstanding research with the potential to make advances in the understanding and treatment of mental health. It is intended that proposals should focus especially on research in the general area of anxiety and depression. The deadline for proposals is 11th January 2019. Find out more here

CLINKS MEMBER'S EVENT: complex commissioning for complex needs

The Academy for Social Justice Commissioning is holding an evening seminar on Complex commissioning for complex needs [6th November, Manchester, free]. According to research by the Lankelly Chase Foundation around 60,000 people in England experience multiple and complex needs. The Big Lottery Fund has invested £112m over eight years to fund partnerships of local organisations to work together and improve services for people with such needs. This seminar will look at what has been learned in the first four years of the programme and how this beneficiary group can best be supported and how that may inform commissioning. Find out more and book here

CLINKS MEMBERS' VACANCIES

Vacancies on the jobs board this week include: a Learning and Engagement Manager (Young People), and a Development Manager with Synergy Theatre [London], a Senior Administrator, Keyworker, and a Recovery Co-ordinator with Humankind [various], a Housing Caseworker and a Fundraising Assistant  with St Giles Trust [various], Relief Support Workers and a Relief Support Person with Waymarks [various], Service User Engagement Apprentice and a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner with The Forward Trust [London], Support Team Lead with Changing Lives [York], Offender Supervisor (Prison-based Caseworker) with Catch 22 [HMP Ashfield], Youth Future Mentors with Sova [Hemel Hempstead], and a Policy Officer with Prisoners Education Trust [London]. For more information about these vacancies, and many more, click here

Did you know...?

Did you know our jobs board is open to all? Members advertise jobs for free, and non-members pay a small charge. Members can also advertise with a featured listing in Light Lunch, for a small charge, which greatly increases interest. Our jobs board gets over 23,000 views a month. Find out more here

TIPS OF THE WEEK

  • Tip of the week I: Free Ideal Home Show Christmas tickets. Details
  • Tip of the week II: 25% discount on food at Ask Italian. Details
  • Tip of the week III: Two-five nights in Iceland from £169. Details

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