Thames Valley Partnership
‘protecting victims, supporting offenders and their families’
The Thames Valley Partnership works in partnership with the statutory, private and voluntary sectors to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the problems of crime and social exclusion. We work to protect victims and reintegrate offenders. Our strength is in collaborative working and integrated approaches across sectors, particularly linking Criminal Justice services to voluntary sector and Local Authority providers.
Our broad spectrum of work includes programmes around the needs of families of offenders, work in the field of domestic abuse, support for victims, restorative justice, community cohesion, mental health issues, early interventions & initiatives around young people and arts related projects.
Find out more about the different aspects of Our Work.
News
International Conference – 25th April 2012
Thames Valley Probation and its European Partners are hosting an International Conference on Restorative Justice in Criminal Matters at St Catherine’s College Oxford on Wednesday 25th April 2012. The Conference is the final event in a collaboration between agencies in Europe seeking to identify and promote best practice in RJ.
Further detailed information can be found in the CONFERENCE FLYER– if you would like to request a place please complete the Reply Form and forward to the Partnership (who are the conference organisers for this event) at bron@thamesvalleypartnership.org.uk
Women at the HeArt
We are pleased to announce details about our new arts programme -Women at the HeArt – which is funded by Arts Council England, The Monument Trust and Thames Valley Probation.
Women at the HeArt seeks to give vulnerable, disadvantaged women more control over their lives, identifying ways of empowering them through the use of creative activities and reconnecting them with their families and communities. The project focuses on women with complex and unmet needs and offers innovative, cost-effective methods of intervention which can open doors and give women greater access to support services.
We will be working with 4 sites across the Thames Valley: Alana House in Reading, The Old Fire Station in Oxford, InterAction MK and Elizabeth Fry probation hostel in Reading.
We are currently recruiting for support artists to become part of this exciting piece of work. More detail can be found in the attached Mentee Information or contact Judy@thamesvalleypartnership.org.uk.
Recognising the potential of arts based approaches
An interesting new report by New Philanthropy Capital explores the benefits of the arts in criminal justice and puts forward a strong economic case for investment in arts charities.
The report entitled “Unlocking Value” was launched at a recent event held at the South Bank Centre in London. The event was chaired by Lord Blair of Boughton who is the Chair of the Partnership’s Board of Trustees.
Visit the Arts Alliance website and download a copy of the Report
Not one but two Partnerships!
Accepted evidence suggests that as well as being a very powerful catalyst for change in the behaviour of offenders, restorative justice can make huge financial savings in the criminal justice system, through reducing reoffending. Since 2001 the Thames Valley Restorative Justice Service (TVRJS) led by TV Probation has achieved an international reputation as a centre of excellence in the field of post sentence restorative justice with serious adult offenders.
The Thames Valley Partnership is therefore delighted to announce that it has taken over the governance of the TVRJS with effect from September 2011. Furthermore the Partnership has been selected to be one of two organizations to partner the Ministry of Justice in a 3 year programme of RJ Capacity building across the National Offender Management Service in England and Wales.
Geoff Emerson TVRJS Manager says ‘Potentially this is the most significant initiative in adult criminal justice practice for a generation. TVRJS has been instrumental in showing that it is possible to integrate RJ safely into existing CJ processes. Our practice and campaigning (with others ) over the past 12 years has been vindicated and the full potential of RJ is about to be rolled out across the whole of England and Wales’.
Patsy Townsend, Director of Thames Valley Partnership …
” Winning this contract is wonderful news and a tremendous opportunity for the Partnership to contribute to this national initiative. The Partnership’s involvement and interest in the development of restorative justice goes back to the mid 1990s and we are delighted with this exciting development, and thrilled to be collaborating with the TVRJS which fits so well with the values and objects of Partnership”
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