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Relative Importance Conference
The Relative Importance Conference was organised by the Thames Valley Partnership, in partnership with Revolving Doors Agency, on the 31st March 2011. The event brought together key professionals from Children’s Services and those from agencies working with adult offenders across the South East to consider how partnership working can improve support to offenders and their families. There was excellent attendance from across the region.
The conference formed the third and final stage of Revolving Doors' Families and Social Networks Programme and was funded by the Tudor Trust.
The conference heard from a range of speakers. Presentations can be downloaded via the links in the side bar on the right hand side of this page:
Catherine Hennessy, Director of Development and Partnerships, Revolving Doors Agency: introduction to the Revolving Doors' Families Programme and evidence from the research phase.
Dr Sam Wright, Researcher, Thames Valley Partnership: findings from the Thames Valley Partnership's research report 'Supporting Offenders and their Families'.
Alexia Murphy, Director of New Business, St Mungo's: Working with Homeless Women with Complex Needs.
Sam Hart, Action for Prisoners' Families: the impact of women's imprisonment on children and families and introduction to the 'Missing Out' film.
Owen Gill, Barnardos: findings from their research report 'Every Night You Cry' on the impact of parental imprisonment on children.
Chris Holmes & Tim Carter, the National Offender Management Service: the NOMS Perspective.
In addition, presentations were given from around the South-East region to highlight some of the existing good practice of supporting offenders and their families. Presentations were given from Oxfordshire, Brighton & Hove, Kent, Southampton and Reading. (Presentations for Oxfordshire, Brighton & Hove and Kent can be downloaded via the links in the side-bar).
We would like to thank all of the presenters and the Thames Valley Partnership for all their hard work in organising the conference.
More information about the Relative Importance conference and Thames Valley Partnerships' 'Family Matters' work (including some resources for working with the children of offenders) can be found on the Thames Valley Partnership's website (here).
