Sarah Smith

Policy and Comms @OSTCharity. All views my own.

[Sarah Smith @SarahLouSm]

Thank you @ChurchillFship for supporting this project 🙌 I’m so excited to embark on this journey - if you have any suggestions of changemakers in Canada, Germany or Finland driving the conversation around women in the justice system in their communities, please reach out!

[The Churchill Fellowship @ChurchillFship]

What does a future with fewer women’s prisons look like?

Churchill Fellow @SarahLouSm, from @OSTCharity, highlights the urgent need for community-based solutions and shares plans to explore innovations in Canada, Germany, and Finland 🌍

Read her blog: https://t.co/dnIR4rpMfB

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

'The stigma & trauma of having a child taken from your care as a mother is beyond words' @lils_lewis. New @Agenda_alliance briefing reveals the impact of child removal on women. For many women affected by the #justicesystem, the experiences described here are all too familiar. 👇

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

📣 We welcome & look forward to working with @ShabanaMahmood, @JamesTCobbler, @Heidi_Labour & @MoJGovUK on reducing the number of women sent to prison, impact of maternal separation & ultimately more community alternatives like #HopeStreet #redesigningjustice @10DowningStreet

[Sarah Smith @SarahLouSm]

Inspiring day yesterday meeting all my fellow Fellows! Truly eye opening hearing about all the different projects that people are planning - can't wait to see what everyone comes back with! #ConnectAndInspire24 #churchillfellow24

[The Churchill Fellowship @ChurchillFship]

We're all abuzz at Connect and Inspire! So lovely to see our new Fellows, existing Fellows, trustees, partners and staff together. We could not be more excited to be here with you all this afternoon  #ConnectAndInspire24 #ChurchillFellow24

[Sarah Smith @SarahLouSm]

📣Thrilled that I have been awarded a Churchill Fellowship for 2024! I'm excited to connect with those abroad working and advocating for less women in prison, and well resourced communities where women can be supported, not criminalized. #ChurchillFellow24 https://t.co/8MAnWqbr5l

[The Churchill Fellowship @ChurchillFship]

🎉 Great news! We're thrilled to announce our 134 new Churchill Fellows for 2024! From making cities greener to using AI in reading, these extraordinary individuals will bring innovative solutions to address issues in the UK.

Meet them here: https://t.co/GyJii6Bhmy

#2024Fellows

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

@UN_Women @lils_lewis As @lils_lewis points out, women’s services aren't getting sufficient investment. In @RosaForWomen report ‘Mapping the UK Women & Girls Sector & its Funding’, it found just 1.8% of the £4.1bil awarded to charities went to the women&girls sector. #IWD2024 https://t.co/Y8plbgtQ0I

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

@UN_Women @lils_lewis @RosaForWomen @WomensBudgetGrp @The_TUC @fawcettsociety @weareNWJC Read @lils_lewis #internationalwomensday2024 blog in full here👇 👇 👇
https://t.co/EqI07qJIEV

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

@UN_Women @lils_lewis @RosaForWomen Women’s services are at dire risk of closure due to cuts & years of underfunding- according to @WomensBudgetGrp, @The_TUC, @fawcettsociety & other women’s orgs, further public service cuts will put gender equality “into reverse”. #IWD2024 #InvestInWomen https://t.co/W7Z5vypCvR

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

This #IWD2024 we’re exploring @UN_Women theme #InvestInWomen and asking what investing in women looks like. Our Women’s Involvement Advisor @lils_lewis shares her thoughts. A #thread for #InternationalWomensDay🧵

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

An unprecedented number of women are being investigated by police on suspicion of illegally ending a pregnancy, @BBCRadio4 #fileon4 has been told. Women accessing vital healthcare deserve compassion and support, not criminalisation.

[Level Up @we_level_up]

“For a pregnant woman or mother, the punishment of prison is doubled”

New polling shows the public support sentencing reform for pregnant women and new mothers! Time for the @SentencingCCL to act.

Full report in @ObserverUK by @eve_rebecca:

https://t.co/KHWkJit4eG

[Sarah Smith @SarahLouSm]

Great to see our polling with @we_level_up featured in @ObserverUK over the weekend, showing public support for sentencing reform for mothers and pregnant women 👇

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

‘The community justice sector needs to be prioritised...so we can prevent the cycle of trauma that imprisonment creates for mothers & their children.’ Our polling with @we_level_up in @ObserverUK shows public support for community alternatives for mothers👇https://t.co/Osy9dQ5nrU

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

Great to see our evidence used in the @LordsJHACom report on community sentences, highlighting how vital pre-sentence reports are for women. Pleased to see their support for increasing the use of & improving PSRs, as well as their call for increased funding for women’s centres👇

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

📣 Take part in our research! Do you work in the #justice or #community sector? Please take our short #poll and feed into #research on women and motherhood in the #justicesystem 👉 https://t.co/7qMgwBV470

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

New #JUSTICE episode! @EdwinaGrosvenor speaks to Are Høidal, Senior Advisor for the Norwegian Correctional Service who was Governor at Halden Prison for 14yrs. Despite receiving international praise, can Halden ever be considered a ‘healing space’? Listen👉https://t.co/Vk4AwfciQk

[Sarah Smith @SarahLouSm]

Important words from @lils_lewis this morning in Parliament, who made a powerful 💪 call for change for how we must support women in the justice system.

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

@RuthCadbury @claire_hubb @ProbationMad @UniofGreenwich @snugarchitects @lils_lewis ‘When I walked into #Hopestreet I was overwhelmed with how safe it felt. When women feel safe, they become brave, and when they feel brave, they can speak.’ @lils_lewis

[Sarah Smith @SarahLouSm]

A powerful and moving morning in @UKParliament, sharing our learning from #HopeStreet - and why we must support women in the community alongside their children, instead of needlessly sending them to prison 👇

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

Delighted to be in @UKParliament today with @ProbationMad & @snugarchitects to launch new briefings on how #HopeStreet, our residential community for justice involved women, has been developed/designed/built to inform wholescale #systemchange https://t.co/SHKpdbc4Xn

[One Small Thing @OSTCharity]

📣Our @BigGive #ChristmasChallenge campaign is live! Up to 05/12 donations will be DOUBLED whilst match funds last⚡️ & make even more of a difference to women & children supported at #HopeStreet. One donation, TWICE the impact! Please give what you can👉https://t.co/aih7jzw6eB