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Circles in the UK Stephen Hanvey Chief Executive Officer

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

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Circles in the UK Stephen Hanvey Chief Executive Officer

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  1. Circles in the UK Stephen Hanvey Chief Executive Officer Circles UK

  2. Development in the UK • Current situation • Future plans • Awareness raising • Challenges and opportunities

  3. Developments • Conference 2000 Home Office • 2 Pilot Projects 2002- 2010 HTV Circles Lucy Faithfull Foundation • Circles UK 2007 & national standards

  4. 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

  5. Developments - context • Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) • Treatment & ‘Good Lives’ • Volunteerism - ‘the Big Society’

  6. Current Situation - Projects • Projects Circles Referrals Volunteers Trained /yr • 5 48 39 145 53 • 10 60 52 223 75 • 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

  7. Current situation - QA • Circles UK membership structure / benefits • Code of Practice • Annual review mechanism

  8. Current situation - data • Quarterly returns • Dynamic Risk Review • National collation of Core Member data & Leeds University - 4 year study Birmingham University - Cost benefits

  9. Future plans • Specialist offender groups = young offenders / women / those with learning difficulties. • Wider partnership base. • Complementary services = counselling & mentoring • Diversity • External training service

  10. Awareness raising • Media - local radio / national radio andtv • Journal articles, and book (August 2011) • Presentations House of Lords ( APPG Penal Affairs) Association of Chief Police Officers Baptist Prison Chaplains • Circles UK Autumn annual conference

  11. Challenges & opportunities Sustainability - income generation • Cuts to police / probation budgets • Competition on charitable trust funds • ‘Payment by results’ & social impact bonds.

  12. Challenges & opp’s The criminal justice context; • ‘Green paper’ - serious offenders ? • Changes to understandings of ‘recidivist behaviour’ • Post ‘Treatment’ and Big Society • ‘Victimology’

  13. “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

  14. Circles UK Abbey House Abbey Square Reading RG1 3BE England 0118 950 0068 www.circles-uk.org.uk stephen.hanvey@circles-uk.org.uk

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