Choose your day
Open a day to explore the programme.
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Methodist Central Hall
08:45–09:20 · Registration, creative installations and short film screenings
09:30–09:40 · Welcome
Steve Chalke and Amy Ludlow.
09:45–10:15 · Courtside with Judge Judy
Steve Chalke and Judy Khan.
10:15–11:00 · A New Manifesto for Justice with Homeboy Industries
Headline keynote setting the vision and challenge.
11:00–11:35 · Tea break with NEMI Teas and Half the Story
11:45–12:45 · Preventing Harm Before It Happens Panel
Chair: Damian Dallimore. Panellists: Steve Baker, Erinma Bell, Jane Case, Homeboy Industries and Leo Moran.
12:45–13:45 · Lunch and The Big Pitch
13:45–14:45 · Preventing Harm Workshops (Choose one)
Common Ground Justice Project: Winning the argument: a manifesto the public will get behind
Love & Power: Parent panel
Trusted Relationships as the engine of harm prevention (Kristine Langhoff and Becky Warnock)
Keeping children safe Without Locking Them Up: looking across health, justice and welfare to prevent children being deprived of their liberty (Hilary Dixon)
14:45–15:15 · Coffee Break
15:15–16:15 · Police, Prosecution and Courts Panel
Exploring problem-solving courts, restorative justice, child-centred policing and deferred prosecution.
Chair: Keir Monteith. Panellists: Lacey Foster, Jonathan Shilvock, Laura Cooper, Nick Jeffreys, Phil Bowen and Deb Jump.
16:15–16:40 · Day One Reflections
With artist in residence Jermaine Wong.
16:40–17:00 · Closing Remarks
Steve Chalke.
Provisional: room allocations and individual Big Pitch details to follow.
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Methodist Central Hall
08:30–09:15 · Heads, Hearts and Hands (Arrival Activities)
09:20–10:15 · Welcome Back followed by Dr Gwen Adshead
Chair: Dr Lorna Brookes.
10:15–11:15 · The Custodial System Workshops (Choose one)
The Workforce We Need to Transform Secure Care for Children and Young People (Sam Fern)
Transitions for 18-25 year olds (Hilary Dixon)
Changemaking in the Adult Secure Estate (Phil Wragg, Laura Abbott and Dave Maguire)
11:15–11:45 · Tea break with NEMI Teas and Half the Story
11:45–12:30 · Restoring Harm
Keynote from Jacob Dunne.
Chair: Tony Simpson.
12:30–13:30 · Lunch and The Big Pitch
13:30–14:30 · Reintegration and Rehabilitation Workshops (Choose one)
Homeboy Industries in conversation
Build to Belong: Who Holds the Tools? with Bamboo Bicycle Club
The role of lived-experience led community groups in rehabilitation and diversion with Revolving Doors × Rehab Fitness
The FirstChecks Campaign with Paula Harriott and Penelope Gibbs
What do we need to come home? with Bilal Harry Khan (EDI workshop facilitator and youth worker) and Charlie Rigby (Founder & CEO, The Violence Intervention Project). Exploring shame, identity, relationships and belonging.
14:30–15:00 · Coffee Break
15:00–15:30 · A New Manifesto
Led by Jermaine Wong
15:30–16:30 · Closing Reflections
Chair: Amy Ludlow.
Panellists: Steve Chalke, Gwen Adshead, Jacob Dunne, Greg Boyle and Judy Khan.
Provisional: room allocations and individual Big Pitch details to follow.
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Oasis St Martin’s Village
08:45–09:20 · Registration, creative installations and short film screenings
09:30–09:40 · Welcome
Steve Chalke and Amy Ludlow.
09:45–10:15 · Courtside with Judge Judy
Steve Chalke and Judy Khan.
10:15–11:00 · A New Manifesto for Justice with Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries. Headline keynote setting the vision and challenge.
11:00–11:35 · Tea break with NEMI Teas and Half the Story
11:45–12:45 · Preventing Harm Before It Happens Panel
Exploring inclusion and exclusion; diversion; early intervention; targeted support; and the implications of brain development.
Chair: Lib Peck. Panellists: Paula Harriott, Ben Lindsay, Jack Rowlands, Martin Griffiths, Homeboy Industries, and Kate Reed.
12:45–13:45 · Lunch and The Big Pitch
13:45–14:45 · Preventing Harm Workshops (Choose one)
Common Ground Justice Project: Winning the argument: a manifesto the public will get behind
Love & Power: Parent panel
Trusted Relationships as the engine of harm prevention (Kristine Langhoff and Becky Warnock)
Keeping children safe Without Locking Them Up: looking across health, justice and welfare to prevent children being deprived of their liberty (Hilary Dixon)
Peer Power Youth · Workshop title and details to follow
14:45–15:15 · Coffee Break
15:15–16:15 · Police, Prosecution and Courts Panel
Exploring problem-solving courts, restorative justice, child-centred policing and deferred prosecution.
Chair: Nicky Padfield. Panellists: Shona Minson, Catherine Roper, Steph Roberts-Bibby, Dominic Goble, Andrea Simon and Laura Cooper.
16:15–16:40 · Day One Reflections
With artist in residence Jermaine Wong.
16:40–17:00 · Closing Remarks
Steve Chalke. Bringing Day One together.
Provisional: room allocations and individual Big Pitch details to follow.
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Oasis St Martin’s Village
08:30–09:15 · Heads, Hearts and Hands (Arrival Activities)
09:20–10:15 · Welcome Back followed by Dr Gwen Adshead
Chair: Paula Harriott.
10:15–11:15 · The Custodial System Workshops (Choose one)
The Workforce We Need to Transform Secure Care for Children and Young People (Sam Fern)
Transitions for 18-25 year olds (Hilary Dixon)
Changemaking in the Adult Secure Estate (Phil Wragg, Laura Abbott and Dave Maguire)
Resettlement Immersive Experience with Switchback
Lived Experience as a Catalyst for Change with User Voice
11:15–11:45 · Coffee Break
11:45–12:30 · Restoring Harm
Keynote from Jacob Dunne. Proposed format: in conversation with the chair.
Chair: Sandra Barefoot.
12:30–13:30 · Lunch and The Big Pitch
13:30–14:30 · Reintegration and Rehabilitation Workshops (Choose one)
Homeboy Industries in conversation
Build to Belong: Who Holds the Tools? with Bamboo Bicycle Club
The role of lived-experience led community groups in rehabilitation and diversion with Revolving Doors × Rehab Fitness
The FirstChecks Campaign with Paula Harriott and Penelope Gibbs
What do we need to come home? with Bilal Harry Khan (EDI workshop facilitator and youth worker) and Charlie Rigby (Founder & CEO, The Violence Intervention Project). Exploring shame, identity, relationships and belonging.
14:30–15:00 · Coffee Break
15:00–15:30 · A New Manifesto with Jermaine Wong.
15:30–16:30 · Closing Reflections
Chair: Amy Ludlow.
Panellists: Steve Chalke, Gwen Adshead, Jacob Dunne, Greg Boyle and Judy Khan.
Provisional: room allocations and individual Big Pitch details to follow.
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MANCHESTER · METHODIST CENTRAL HALL
LONDON · OASIS ST MARTIN’S VILLAGE, 155 TULSE HILL, LONDON SW2 3UP
Quiet spaces and a no-photos option are planned. Full access information and room locations will be added once confirmed.QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR VISIT? CONTACT PHOEBE.MINSON@SHIFTUK.ORG
For too long, public conversation about justice has been polarised, dominated by punishment, shame, and division. But scratch below the surface, there is growing recognition that we cannot harm to heal.
Across four days in Manchester and London, people from across the justice community will gather: people who work for justice institutions, people who have been subject to the justice system, and everyone seeking to change it through policy, practice, research, leadership, advocacy and the arts.
Our gathering will connect and energise a vibrant community that is reimagining and rewiring our justice system. Together we will create a compelling vision for criminal justice that pushes policy and practice change and begins with children and young people.
Our work together is necessarily inclusive, anti-racist and anti-oppressive. Harm disproportionately impacts communities where there is most inequality, exclusion, trauma, and discrimination. Responses by justice services can sometimes reproduce and compound harm.
Our work together is also necessarily relational. Across education, social work, youth justice, healthcare, policing and community services, there is growing consensus that relationships are the most powerful mechanism for enabling change. The practitioners who make the greatest difference are those able to work with and alongside people, rather than simply doing things to them or for them.
