While the Butler Trust's Annual Awards are for outstanding individuals - the Kathy Biggar Trophy is for notable community-based initiatives (probation and youth justice), which have brought significant benefits locally, and could be rolled out more widely.
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[Yorks & the Humber Probation (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy runner-up: The Departure Lounge outside New Hall offers a comfortable and welcoming environment to newly released women, where they can get a warm drink and snacks, use a phone and charge their own, plan their onward journey, and get information and guidance from the centre’s staff.
Keywords: resettlement, female offenders
[Greater Manchester Probation (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: The Atlas Project is a course developed by Greater Manchester Probation and Fire & Rescue Services (GMFRS), for adults convicted of fire-setting.
Keywords: arson, resilience
[Interventions Alliance (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Interventions Alliance believe their Chatham CFO Activity Hub is an example of best practice in working with young adult male offenders, who are often reluctant to engage with non-mandated services.
Keywords: reintegration, employment, engagement, young adults
[East Sussex YJS (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Collaboration Against Child Exploitation (CACE) is a parent-led partnership between East Sussex YJS and local parents with lived experience of child exploitation.
Keywords: young people, exploitation
[Ingeus (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Ingeus’ Fit for Work programme is an 8-week course, with participants spending 1 day p.w. in small teams in the Peak District national park, aimed at improving engagement and helpng prepare people for work.
Keywords: training, employment
[Wales Probation (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Under this initiatve Wales Probation have put systems and structures in place to support effective communication, learning and continuous improvement throughout the organisation as a whole – with a particular focus on “Human factors”.
Keywords: learning, professional development, communications
[Gateshead YJS (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Listen to Me is a video scripted, voiced and animated by young people, for other young people involved in the CJS, on how they became involved in offending, their experiences of the CJS, and what worked for them to help them stop offending.
Keywords: young people, diversion, crime prevention, peer engagement
[Interventions Alliance (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Interventions Alliance believe their Liverpool Activity Hub is an example of good practice in its work with TACT offenders and others convicted of especially serious offences.
Keywords: reintegration, employment, engagement, TACT offenders
[North East Probation (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: The Practice Improvement Group (‘the PIG’) meets 4-6 weekly, and focuses on sharing good practice, as well as and identifying areas for improvement, across Newcastle probation.
Keywords: practice improvement, staff engagement
[Wales Probation (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy runner-up: This initiative sees the Police in Wales share daily updates with probation colleagues on all reportable incidents (such as arrests and domestic violence call outs) across the country.
Keywords: intelligence sharing
