CEP Probation Awards 2016: a celebration of outstanding contributions to probation

CEP is establishing a Probation Awards Scheme to celebrate outstanding contributions to Probation.

Nominations can be made in 4 categories:


1. Rehabilitation in the community – an award for work which is effective in rehabilitating probation clients and reducing reoffending.
2. Social inclusion – an award for work which has made a significant contribution to integrating probation clients into the community.
3. Public protection – an award for making a significant contribution to reducing risk of harm to potential victims.
4. Research – an award for research which has had a major impact on probation practice.

 

Award winners will receive an engraved plaque and a framed photograph of them receiving their award at the General Assembly in Bucharest in October 2016. Opportunities would be found for their work to be showcased in the media, on the website – either at the conference or at future events.

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Conferences you should not miss

One day conference: Working with young adult offenders (31 August, Lillestrøm, Norway)

In close co-operation with the Directorate of Correctional Services of Norway (KDI) and the Correctional Service of Norway, Staff Academy (KRUS), CEP will organise a one-day conference on working with young adult offenders.

ERA Seminar ‘Supervising matters related to detention (23 - 24 June Strasbourg)

This seminar will focus on the work of the Council of Europe and international bodies in improving conditions related to detention.

CEP conference on “Alternatives to Detention” (6 - 7 October, Bucharest, Romania)

On 6-7 October 2016, following the 12th CEP General Assembly on the 5th,  CEP is organizing a large  international conference on one of its core business topics, namely “Alternatives to Detention”.

Alternatives to detention in Central and East European countries – second conference (16 - 18  November, Dubrovnik, Croatia)

After a first successful conference on the “Alternatives to detention in Central and East European countries”, held in Chisinau (Moldova) in 2014, CEP plans  follow-up event for 16-18 November in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Save the date for a few upcoming interesting CEP conferences:

Criminal Justice Platform  expert meeting on Alternatives to Detention (3 - 4 November 2016)

Foreign National Prisoners workshop together with EuroPris (24 - 25 November 2016)

Criminal Justice Platform expert meeting on the Victims directive (7 - 8 December 2016)
Probation works – in French

Easily accessible knowledge of probation for a wide audience, including practitioners, policy makers, students and interested lay persons. That is what the Probation works section on CEP’s website is all about.

Three years after launching the question-and-answer format, combining academic knowledge and applied scientific knowledge from the world of community sanctions, Probation works is now also available in French. Also, a German version is expected soon. With many thanks to Laura von Mandach and Natalia Delgrande from the Swiss Prison Staff Training Center.

Check out why Probation works in English

Voir ici l'importance de la probation en Francais
LIAISE2: combatting radicalization

Local Institutions against Violent Extremism II Project (LIAISE 2) is an EU-funded project led by the European Forum for Urban Security (EFUS). The project aims to organize five European conferences on different aspects of the issue of radicalisation. Furthermore, it will deliver training sessions to local authorities’ partner of the project and will help them to set up pilot projects through which they will apply locally the knowledge gained during the training sessions as well as develop innovative practices. CEP will be in charge of organizing a Conference together with Efus and Local authorities on the topic “Preventing Radicalisation in Probation and Prison”.

Elizabeth Johnston, Executive Director of EFUS:
"Through the LIAISE 2 project, we want to strengthen the capacities of local and regional European authorities to prevent and tackle the issue of radicalisation leading to violent extremism. One of the themes to be addressed is their role in preventing radicalisation in prison and during probation. The partnership with probation organisations, such as the CEP, will facilitate the training of locally elected officials and their teams on this issue and provide support to the cities in their implementation of prevention actions."

The project will last 24 months and will build on the results of LIAISE project initiated in 2014.

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Foriner: Providing Education to foreign EU prisoners across EU Prisons

CEP is associate partner of the FORINER project, which was launched on the 1st of January 2016. The project was initiated to provide EU foreign national inmates in EU prisons with access to qualitative, low threshold, certified learning opportunities provided by home institutions but received by the inmate in an EU foreign prison. To this end a structure will be designed and tested which allows education providers to reach out to their national prisoners in other EU countries, at the same quality standard as the home offer.

CEP aims to promote the welfare and interests of European citizens who are detained outside their country of residence, in order to facilitate their social reintegration. The Foriner project, funded by the European programme Erasmus+, has a real added value to this object.

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PBNI showcases Probation through social media

In March 2016 PBNI launched a 4 week social media campaign called ‘#ProbationWorks‘. The concept behind the campaign was to showcase in visual and creative ways how and why probation in Northern Ireland works that can be easily understood by a wide audience.

Using the twitter account (@PBNINews) for the campaign plus LinkedIn, and Youtube in conjunction with the website (www.pbni.org.uk) PBNI has showcased to the public our work through ‘day in the life’ accounts from the frontline staff, videos of service users, PBNI staff and stakeholders on the importance of Probation, and infographics to show visually the work that probation does.

A perfect complement to CEP's probation works.

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