1. Circles in the UK Stephen Hanvey Chief Executive Officer Circles UK

2. Development in the UK Current situation Future plans Awareness raising Challenges and opportunities

3. Developments Conference 2000 Home Office 2 Pilot Projects 2002- 2010 HTV Circles Lucy Faithfull Foundation Circles UK 2007 & national standards

4. Circles UK role Ensure development & delivery of Circles by coordination of information, data. Ensure quality and consistency, through training and assessment Develop learning, evaluation & research Develop public awareness and understanding Develop influence and profile of Circles Ensure sustainability of service nationally

5. Developments - context Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Treatment & ‘Good Lives’ Volunteerism - ‘the Big Society’

6. Current Situation - Projects Projects Circles Referrals Volunteers Trained /yr 5 48 39 145 53 2009 10 60 52 223 75 2010 11 64 180 444 221 Hampshire & Thames Valley /North Wales / Cumbria Lucy Faithfull Foundation / East of England / Manchester / Yorkshire & Humberside / Leicestershire / South West England / Northumbria / South London

7. Current situation - QA Circles UK membership structure / benefits Code of Practice Annual review mechanism

8. Current situation - data Quarterly returns Dynamic Risk Review National collation of Core Member data & Leeds University - 4 year study Birmingham University - Cost benefits

9. Future plans Specialist offender groups = young offenders / women / those with learning difficulties. Wider partnership base. Complementary services = counselling & mentoring Diversity External training service

10. Awareness raising Media - local radio / national radio and tv Journal articles, and book (August 2011) Presentations House of Lords ( APPG Penal Affairs) Association of Chief Police Officers Baptist Prison Chaplains Circles UK Autumn annual conference

11. Challenges & opportunities Sustainability - income generation Cuts to police / probation budgets Competition on charitable trust funds ‘Payment by results’ & social impact bonds.

12. Challenges & opp’s The criminal justice context; ‘Green paper’ - serious offenders ? Changes to understandings of ‘recidivist behaviour’ Post ‘Treatment’ and Big Society ‘Victimology’

13. “If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” Goethe

14. Circles UK Abbey House Abbey Square Reading RG1 3BE England 0118 950 0068 www.circles-uk.org.ukwww.circles-uk.org.uk stephen.hanvey@circles-uk.org.uk