SHiFT

Enabling children & young people to escape the destructive cycles of crime, doing whatever it takes to create sustained change and a positive future.

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

We're moving to @bluesky 💙 To ensure safe, meaningful conversations aligned with SHiFT’s values, we’re prioritising a platform that fosters safe, inclusive spaces for all. Find us there! #SocialJustice #Bluesky

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

Season's Greetings from SHiFT!

In 2024 we have:

Launched 3 new SHiFT Practices.
Enabled 174 children, young people, and families to work intensively with a SHiFT Guide.
Welcomed 22 new colleagues to SHiFT.

Read more: https://t.co/E3gO7i6HY7

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

Are you an expert practitioner passionate about transforming outcomes for young people caught in cycles of crime and harm? Join SHiFT as a Practice Development Lead. Read more here: https://t.co/wnPqnu0n46

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

We are looking for a Digital Media and Events Coordinator to jump on board and get stuck into a brand new role at SHiFT at an exciting time of growth. Read more here: https://t.co/TkVilI7LwK

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

Join SHiFT as our Director of Programmes & Policy, a pivotal new role that will strategically and operationally lead the implementation of SHiFT’s Practices while unlocking opportunities to reform policy and practice at a national level.

Read more: https://t.co/ExlAdPFqjg

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

SHiFT co-founder @JoshMacAlister is the new Chair for the APPG for Care-Experienced Children and Young People, we are delighted to support @Become1992 and the APPG.

[Become @BecomeCharity]

💼 As the Secretariat we are delighted the APPG for Care-Experienced Children & Young People re-started this week with @JoshMacAlister as the new Chair, alongside elected officers @pspencer_CSNI, Lord Wood & Baroness Tyler.

➡️ Find out more: https://t.co/KKJJlQwlGe

[Become @BecomeCharity]

💼 As the Secretariat we are delighted the APPG for Care-Experienced Children & Young People re-started this week with @JoshMacAlister as the new Chair, alongside elected officers @pspencer_CSNI, Lord Wood & Baroness Tyler.

➡️ Find out more: https://t.co/KKJJlQwlGe

[The Northern Powerhouse Partnership @NP_Partnership]

Today, we’re launching the latest Fairer Schools Index, which reveals how assessment of school performance shifts when pupil background is taken into account.

We are also calling on the Government to reinstate value-added measures to ensure fairer evaluations of school progress.

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

The '24 #ReithLectures on @BBCRadio4, forensic psychiatrist #DrGwenAdshead discusses the complex truths of violence, drawing on 40 years working with people in secure settings and prisons. “Is Violence Normal?” Listen now:
https://t.co/TIcHSMQlIz

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

A new report from the @SentencingAcad explores what children know about sentencing and their perspectives on fairness and justice. The findings highlight the urgency of accessible, transparent communication within the justice system. Full report: https://t.co/HmPEJBODZ8...

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

SHiFT is alongside @mission44 's #NothingHappensinIsolation; tackling the root causes of school exclusions and the impact on children. 72% of young people in custody have been suspended, 13% have been permanently excluded. SHiFT is committed to breaking the cycles of harm.

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

SHiFT is scaling high impact ‘insider-outsider’ Practices, like in Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough in partnership with those that share our determination for systems change. SHiFT does whatever it takes to set children & young people up for safe & bright futures. (6/6)

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

We Can’t Break the Destructive Cycle of Crime Without Addressing Child Poverty. Ahead of the broadcast of the @BBCCiN TV appeal this evening it felt important to underscore the relationship between child poverty & the destructive cycle of crime that SHiFT seeks to break. (1/8)🧵

[SHiFT @shiftukorg]

Both areas have a school exclusion rate of around 30%, three times the national average. (5/6)