circles in the uk stephen hanvey chief executive officer circles uk
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Circles in the UK
Stephen Hanvey
Chief Executive Officer
Circles UK
• Development in the UK
• Current situation
• Future plans
• Awareness raising
• Challenges and opportunities
Developments
• Conference 2000 Home Office
• 2 Pilot Projects 2002- 2010
HTV Circles
Lucy Faithfull Foundation
• Circles UK 2007 & national standards
Circles UK role
• Ensure development & delivery of Circles by coordination of information, data.
• Ensure quality and consistency, through training and assessment
• Develop learning, evaluation & research• Develop public awareness and understanding• Develop influence and profile of Circles• Ensure sustainability of service nationally
Developments - context
• Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
• Treatment & ‘Good Lives’
• Volunteerism - ‘the Big Society’
Current Situation - Projects
Projects Circles Referrals Volunteers Trained /yr
• 5 48 39 145 53
2009 10 60 52 223 75
2010 11 64 180 444 221
Hampshire & Thames Valley /North Wales / Cumbria Lucy Faithfull Foundation / East of England /
Manchester / Yorkshire & Humberside / Leicestershire / South West England / Northumbria /
South London
Current situation - QA
• Circles UK membership structure / benefits
• Code of Practice
• Annual review mechanism
Current situation - data
• Quarterly returns
• Dynamic Risk Review
• National collation of Core Member data
&
Leeds University - 4 year study
Birmingham University - Cost benefits
Future plans
• Specialist offender groups = young offenders / women / those with learning difficulties.
• Wider partnership base.
• Complementary services = counselling & mentoring
• Diversity
• External training service
Awareness raising
• Media - local radio / national radio and tv• Journal articles, and book (August 2011)• Presentations
House of Lords ( APPG Penal Affairs)Association of Chief Police OfficersBaptist Prison Chaplains
• Circles UK Autumn annual conference
Challenges & opportunities
Sustainability - income generation • Cuts to police / probation budgets
• Competition on charitable trust funds
• ‘Payment by results’ & social impact bonds.
Challenges & opp’s
The criminal justice context;
• ‘Green paper’ - serious offenders ?
• Changes to understandings of
‘recidivist behaviour’
• Post ‘Treatment’ and Big Society
• ‘Victimology’
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
Goethe
Circles UK
Abbey House
Abbey Square
Reading
RG1 3BE
England
0118 950 0068 www.circles-uk.org.uk