Justice

Festive Special 2019 #AllIWant4Xmas with…Noel Williams and Kate ParadineIn this week’s episode, Edwina is joined by Policy Adviser Noel Williams and Women in Prison CEO Kate Paradine to discuss festive wishes and wants for change in the Justice system from a range of contributors, including prison officers.Noel advises on criminal and youth justice and has direct experience of the prison system. He is featured in JUSTICE Episode 14You can follow Noel @NJKNoelDr Kate Paradine is Chief Executive of the national charity, Women in Prison. Women in Prison campaigns to end the harm of imprisonment to women, their families & our communities and supports women affected by the criminal justice system, in prison and through community-based specialist services, including women's centres in Manchester, London and Surrey. womeninprison.org.ukYou can follow Women in Prison @WIP_liveYou can follow Kate @klparadineRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast

In this episode Edwina talks to Chief Inspector Jack Rowlands who heads up DIVERT, a Metropolitan Police Service intervention programme for young adults aged 18-25 years. Working in partnership with a number of charities, DIVERT aims to reduce reoffending and offer routes in to employment, education and training. Edwina also hears from Paul Goumou who has directly benefitted from the support, coaching and mentoring on offer. The team goes on location at Brixton Police Station Custody Suite with Jack, to find out more about how the DIVERT initiative works there and in other police stations across the Metropolitan Police Service and meets DIVERT Coach Angel Videyra. You can follow DIVERT @DIVERTLondonChief Inspector Jack Rowlands @earlyyearscopTo find out more about DIVERT and Paul Goumou’s music: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/music-youthRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency. &#

In this week’s episode, Edwina talks to Mark Fairhurst, Chair of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) about the current challenges facing its members. The POA is the largest union in the United Kingdom representing uniformed prison officers and staff working within the field of Secure Forensic Psychiatric Care. It has over 35 thousand members in the public and private sectors. He was elected to the POA National Executive Committee in 2015 and elected as National Chair in 2017. Mark joined the Prison Service in 1992 and has worked in a number of secure establishments including HMP Frankland in Durham, HM Young Offenders Institute (HMYOI) Wetherby, HMYOI Lancaster Farms and since 1996, HMP Liverpool, where he continues to work. For more information about the POA: POAUK.org.uk @POAUnionYou can also follow Mark Fairhurst on Twitter @POANatChairRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.

In this week’s episode Edwina talks to John Podmore. John is an international criminal justice and expert witness consultant. John spent 25 years as a senior manager in the Prison Service of England and Wales during which time he governed three prisons - HMP Swaleside, Brixton and Belmarsh; was a team leader with HM Inspector of Prisons and Head of the Corruption Prevention Unit. He left the Prison Service in 2011. John is a regular commentator and writer. His book ‘Out of sight Out of Mind: why Britain’s prisons are failing’ was published in January 2012 and nominated for the 2013 Orwell Prize. John has considerable experience in the charitable sector including with the Pilgrim Trust, Addaction, Release and currently as a trustee of the Longford Trust.You can follow John on Twitter here: @John_Podmorehttps://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/out-of-sight-out-of-mind*John meant to reference Reggie Kray, not Ronnie Kray in this episode and Penelope Gibbs raised a Freedom of Informa

In this week’s episode, Edwina and the One Small Thing team are on location at Southbank Centre in London for a tour of Another Me, the Koestler Arts Annual Exhibition curated by Mercury-nominated and MOBO-winning jazz and hip hop musician Soweto Kinch. Edwina tours the show which features work by artists from across UK prisons and other secure settings with Koestler’s Director of Arts, Fiona Curran. Fiona leads on the charity’s annual awards programme, exhibitions, sales and events and has worked for the charity for over ten years. We are grateful for permission to feature the original Another Me music compositions by Soweto Kinch in this episode.Koestler Arts is a leading prison arts charity: https://www.koestlerarts.org.uk/Another Me is at Southbank Centre until November 3rd. https://www.koestlerarts.org.uk/exhibitions/another-me/For information about the events, musical performances and tours accompanying the show: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/wh

In this week’s episode, Edwina speaks to advocate and campaigner, Naima Sakande about her work challenging the practice of imprisonment for non-payment of Council Tax and TV license fines and its disproportionate impact on women and children. Naima is the Women’s Justice Advocate at justice charity APPEAL, using impact litigation to challenge miscarriages of justice for women experiencing multiple and severe disadvantage. She produces APPEAL’S Surviving Injustice podcast, is a trustee of the charity Women in Prison and creator and host of the podcast, Third Culture. We are encouraging our UK listeners to sign the petition calling for repeal of the law that allows imprisonment as a penalty for non-payment of Council Tax.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/257681www.appeal.org.uk@C4CrimAppeals@NSakandehttp://appeal.org.uk/podcasthttp://www.thirdculturepodcast.org/naima@appeal.org.ukRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast is created and produced by T

In our first episode after the summer break, Edwina talks to artist and podcast producer, Gary Mansfield, about discovering art and creativity whilst serving a 14 year prison sentence. Gary talks about his experiences of crime and prison life, the importance of creativity in helping turn his life and the lives of others around and his art, exploring issues of identity and justice. Gary is also a trustee of Koestler Arts.http://www.garymansfield.co.uk/https://www.koestlerarts.org.uk/@mizogartRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Edwina talks to artist, mental health activist and all round extraordinary and brilliant being, Dolly Sen. Dolly talks to Edwina about her childhood, her experience of psychosis, mood disorder and PTSD, and how the multiple diagnoses affected her ability to live a normal life. She also talks about how she has survived - and befriended - the voices in her head. For more information about Dolly’s work, go to her website. www.dollysen.comIf you are affected by mental illness including schizophrenia, here are some useful sites to visit for information and support:http://www.sane.org.uk/what_we_do/support/helpline https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/helplines/https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/schizophrenia/useful-contacts/#.XSgXILPTXYURead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for priva

Clinician and Trauma expert Dr Stephanie Covington Ph.D runs pioneering trauma programmes in prisons all over the world. As author of the Healing Trauma intervention for women, she has been pivotal in the success of our charity’s ongoing efforts in both the male and female prisons in England and Wales.Among the key topics explored in this episode Edwina and Stephanie consider the way men respond to the word, and the idea of trauma, while confined in hyper masculine spaces. Fascinating and compelling stuff.The Healing Trauma research referred to in this episode is available on the One Small Thing website:https://onesmallthing.org.uk/news-1/2019/6/12/healing-trauma-research?format=amp’www.stephaniecovington.comRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What will it take to end the culture of knife crime and violence? Today’s podcast explores this question with new CEO of StreetDoctors Lucie Russell and volunteer medic Jasmine Fulcher. StreetDoctors is a UK wide youth social action movement of healthcare students volunteering their time to teach lifesaving skills to young people at risk of youth violence. The charity empowers young people to become StreetDoctors in their own communities, helping to keep themselves and others safe. Links www.streetdoctors.org  @streetdoctorsRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We all know that prisons get a huge amount of bad press. However, behind the negative headlines, there are lots of good things going on in our jails. Someone who has dedicated his working life to exploring and celebrating the good in prisons is today’s guest, Simon Shepherd. “I want to highlight the good work that goes on in the [prison] estate, highlight the good work that goes on in prisons and help to identify lessons learned that the prison service can draw on,” he says. Simon is the Director of The Butler Trust, a charitable organisation that recognises, celebrates, develops and disseminates outstanding work and best practice across UK prisons, probation and youth justice. He also leads the Good Book of Prisons and has - to date - travelled 17,210 miles, visiting 102 prisons and meeting with 2,067 staff and prisoners. The results will be published in August 2019.You can follow The Butler Trust on twitter here: @ButlerTrustRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis pod

In our latest episode Edwina speaks to police inspector and mental health advocate, Inspector Michael Brown, OBE, West Midlands Police. Until very recently Michael was the Mental Health Coordinator for the College of Policing and National Police Chiefs’ Council. His award winning blog mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com explores policing, mental health and criminal justice..You can follow him on twitter here: @mentalhealthcophttps://onesmallthing.org.ukThis podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marian Partington’s deep interest in healing threads through her work as a homœopath for thirty years, in prisons and schools as a story teller and facilitator for The Forgiveness Project since 2005, and as a writer. Her book If You Sit Very Still offers ‘an extraordinary story of inner movement and growth’ (Rowan Williams) as she engages fiercely with the traumatic loss of her sister Lucy who was murdered by Fred and Rosemary West. Links:https://www.theforgivenessproject.com/marian-partingtonhttps://onesmallthing.org.ukClick here to purchase Marian’s bookhttps://www.jkp.com/uk/if-you-sit-very-still-1.html/This podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In her early twenties, Alexandra was raped. Seven years on, we hear her story and learn how she was treated by the criminal justice system once her case was brought to court. If you have been a victim of rape, there are many places you can go for help. These include Rape Crisis: https://rapecrisis.org.ukFor help and information about support available including IDSVAs – Independent Domestic and Sexual Violence Advisers and SARCs – Sexual Assault Referral Centres - as mentioned specifically in the episode, go to:http://thesurvivorstrust.org Telephone 0808 801 0818For male rape and sexual abuse support, go to: survivorsuk.org  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Edwina is joined by author, newspaper columnist and wine expert Helen McGinn, whose younger brother Tim was murdered in London in 2002.Helen’s website and blog can be found here: www.knackeredmotherswineclub.com/This podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we report live from the first ever One Small Thing Conference – Working With Trauma - held in Leeds in March 2019. With keynote speeches from Dr Stephanie Covington and Dr Karen Treisman, the conference brought together a range of experts and practitioners to share ideas, knowledge and network together about #workingwithtraumaThanks to all who came and chatted to us in the podcast room during the conference.The relevant links for this episode are:One Small ThingLeo CosendaiDr. Stephanie CovingtonDr Karen TreismanDIVERTThis podcast is created and produced by John Webb and Jenny Dyson of The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Edwina explores the language of criminology with Penelope Gibbs, a champion of improvements to the UK justice system and the founder of charity organisation Transform Justice. Transform JusticeTwitter:@PenelopeGibbs2One Small ThingTwitter:@OSTCharityThis podcast series is recorded, produced and edited by The London Podcast Company & Pencil Agency.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week’s episode, Edwina goes through the gates of Brixton Prison to explore how it's prisoner-staffed restaurant, The Clink, is bringing reoffending rates down and changing lives for the better.Created by thelondonpodcast.company  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode Edwina talks to Marina Cantacuzino. Award-winning journalist, TED speaker and founder of The Forgiveness Project (www.theforgivenessproject.com) - a charity which collects and shares stories from individuals and communities who have rebuilt their lives following hurt and trauma.Created by thelondonpodcast.company  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week’s episode, Edwina speaks to Cheryl Stepton, Managing Director and Proprietor of the Cavendish School. Cavendish provides education for excluded children - set up in 2000, the school's ethos is Everyday is a fresh start…Created by thelondonpodcast.company  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.