User Voice are pleased to announce that our front-line team has expanded to keep pace with an increased demand for our services, including:
We have therefore recruited 4 ex-offenders to help us deliver our current projects:
Exciting times ahead....
User Voice keeps getting BIGGER....
User Voice has moved to a NEW OFFICE...
As a result of recent successful projects and an increasing demand for our services, User Voice is expanding.
Our continued growth means we need more office space and we have therefore relocated to Kennington.
Our new address is:
20 Newburn Street
London
SE11 5PJ
Click here for a map.
We also have a new number:
020 3137 7471
Our continued growth means we need more office space and we have therefore relocated to Kennington.
Our new address is:
20 Newburn Street
London
SE11 5PJ
Click here for a map.
We also have a new number:
020 3137 7471
Mark Johnson interviews NOMS chief executive on Green Paper
Mark Johnson was invited by the National Offender Management Service, which runs prisons and probation services nationwide, to talk with their chief executive, Michael Spurr about the government's Green Paper proposals for rehabilitation and sentencing reform.
Click here to see the article published in the Ministry of Justice magazine, Insight.
Click here to see the article published in the Ministry of Justice magazine, Insight.
Prisons Minister Crispin Blunt MP and Mark Johnson to speak at conference
Prisons Minister Crispin Blunt MP and User Voice's Mark Johnson will be speaking at a conference in Durham on Thursday 19th May 2011.
The conference, organised by the charity Necpacs, will discuss how family ties can be reinforced and family needs met, during and after imprisonment of a family member.
Carole Payne, Head of Early Intervention and Partnerships at Durham County Council, who will also be speaking at the conference, said: "Children of prisoners are a particularly vulnerable group, and it is important that all agencies work together to support them properly."
See last week's article in The Northern Echo here.
The conference, organised by the charity Necpacs, will discuss how family ties can be reinforced and family needs met, during and after imprisonment of a family member.
Carole Payne, Head of Early Intervention and Partnerships at Durham County Council, who will also be speaking at the conference, said: "Children of prisoners are a particularly vulnerable group, and it is important that all agencies work together to support them properly."
See last week's article in The Northern Echo here.
Final What's Your Story? report published
What’s Your Story? is the final report of a major consultation with 582 excluded young people between the age of 12 and 27 undertaken by User Voice.
It sets out their recommendations including the proposal for a new organisation led and staffed by ex-offenders aimed at helping young offenders into work. The final report came out of discussions that took place in December 2010 between 30 of the young people – nominated by their peers – and 25 policy makers, including MPs and representatives from the Ministry of Justice, National Offender Management Service, the Youth Justice Board, prisons, probation trusts and private contractors currently managing prisons.
The project was our biggest to date – so big it needed its own website, which includes:
It sets out their recommendations including the proposal for a new organisation led and staffed by ex-offenders aimed at helping young offenders into work. The final report came out of discussions that took place in December 2010 between 30 of the young people – nominated by their peers – and 25 policy makers, including MPs and representatives from the Ministry of Justice, National Offender Management Service, the Youth Justice Board, prisons, probation trusts and private contractors currently managing prisons.
The project was our biggest to date – so big it needed its own website, which includes:
- The final report and summary.
- Trailer for a documentary fronted by Mercury Music Prize winning rapper Speech Debelle.
- Video of the whole project.
- Photos from the conference.
- Music written and performed by the young people.
Call for ban on painful restraint for children
A new report published today by the Office of the Children's Commissioner (OCC), and based on research conducted by User Voice, highlights young people's experience of restraint in secure juvenile settings.
The report says international standards must be used as a benchmark for the safe use of restraint in the secure juvenile estate when required as a measure of last resort. The use of sanctioned pain to control children must therefore be abolished.
The publication of the report has received extensive coverage in the media.
A copy of the report can be downloaded here.
The report says international standards must be used as a benchmark for the safe use of restraint in the secure juvenile estate when required as a measure of last resort. The use of sanctioned pain to control children must therefore be abolished.
The publication of the report has received extensive coverage in the media.
A copy of the report can be downloaded here.
New microsite launched
User Voice has today launched a new microsite dedicated to the Excluded Youth project.
This nationwide engagement project reached nearly 600 young people in 6 months ending in a final event with senior policy makers in Parliament. There was too much information gathered to include in the final report, including videos, music, pictures and case studies, that we have decided to put it all online and accessible to all.
The site also includes comments from the young people who participated, a link to the Facebook page with nearly 800 users, updates on taking the recommendations forward and the opportunity for anyone to have their say.
Access the microsite here.
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