Johnny Aston

Essex-based, offering media relations, comms strategies, media training and writing. Views entirely my own

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

Community remedy: http://t.co/11WgJpTr Charities working in youth CJ need to shape this, not see it as a means of income for services

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

Community remedy. Nothing changes! Community-based revamp of Willie Whitelaw's 'short, sharp, shock treatment' http://t.co/11WgJpTr

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

Community remedy: http://t.co/11WgJpTr and we can probably guess the sort of punishments they will suggest Something in hi-vis humiliation

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

Community remedy http://t.co/11WgJpTr I think we can guess the sort of person that will be first in line to respond to the consultation

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

@gillradcliffe The law doesn't prevent open recruitment though. Once again, those we elect use the law as refuge from doing the right thing

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

@ticiaverveer Truly amazing and fascinating

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

@gillradcliffe Think Mr Longmore on record as saying no room for politics in policing, clearly plenty of room for cronyism. Your view?

[Jonathan Todd @Jonathan_Todd]

"It's hard to believe, but in Israel, in 2012, Ethiopian women are forced to receive injections of ... contraceptive" http://t.co/BaJlFusQ

[Liz Turner @lizt1980]

People on unpaid 'workfare' count as employed. Suddenly those stats on falling unemployment look less impressive...

[Rebecca Keating @RebeccaKeating]

NAO: One Work Programme provider got 0% of JSA claimants under 25 into sustained employment. Best firm got 2.2%. Govt target was 5.5%

[Frances Crook @francescrook]

Government has created 292 new criminal offences in 52 different pieces of legislation in one year http://t.co/FTpZuahX

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

Guardian: Scope quits mandatory work scheme http://t.co/Bw8zlrTP #workfare

[The Care Inquiry @TheCareInquiry]

"people work hard to keep children with their parents but no one works hard to keep a placement together" #CareInquiry

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

@TheCareInquiry Many young people will aslo have multiple foster-care placements too.

[DeHavilland @DeHavilland]

Miliband: Govt looks after their friends and hits people whose lives they will never understand. #PMQs

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

@tweetingolivia Do you? Think poverty is a little more complex than that. Multiple levels of disadvantage might be a better description

[Prison Reform Trust @PRTuk]

Votes for prisoners: UK told it must implement ECHR decisions http://t.co/xt1LbAaf via @guardian

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

@NinaStobart You're right and I didn't mean to suggest anything other than how you have just put it. Genuine compliment

[Johnny Aston @1649er]

@NinaStobart @joatwish Admirable. But as I don't get up until 05.30, will it wait until then?