The table below will provide you with information about all the ongoing T2A projects.
| Lead Organisation | Website | Project description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
BCT/MoJ | Evaluating the MoJ's 'deferred prosecutions' pilot. | Evaluators have been selected from Manchester Metropolitan University. | |
BTEG | http://www.bteg.co.uk | Equal - Ending Criminal Justice Race Inequality for Children and Young Adults. Implementation phase of Young Review on over-representation of young black and Muslim men in the criminal justice system | In progress. Finishes April 2021. |
Care Leavers Association | https://www.careleavers.com/ | Between Care and Criminal Justice - Bridging the Chasm. To campaign for evidence based policy change to support care leavers with criminal justice experience | Project in progress |
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) | https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/ | The criminalisation of young adults through ASB (Anti-social behaviour) - the project will raise awareness and support a change in the use of ASB powers to sanction young adults. https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/ | Project nearing completion. |
Criminal Justice Alliance | http://criminaljusticealliance.org/ | Connecting for Change - dissemination of T2A messages. | Project in progress. |
Dundee University | LGBTQI people in prison - Research on the experience of LGBTQI people in UK prisons | Project end date extended to spring | |
Exeter University | Neuro-Adversity and Transition: key time points for action - the project will support the development of trauma-informed assessment tools in the criminal justice system | Project in progress. Completes December 2020. | |
Howard League for Penal Reform | http://www.howardleague.org | Embedding sentencing principles for young adults - to support the embedding of best practice sentencing principles for young adults. | Project in progress |
The Innovation Unit Limited | https://www.innovationunit.org/ | To develop a pilot project to support a cross sector approach to delivering services to care experienced young adults who have experienced custody. | Project in progress |
Just for Kids Law | https://justforkidslaw.org/ | Turning 18: Timely Justice - The project will seek changes to how the courts deal with people who commit offences as children but are charged or sentenced after the age of 18. | Project in progress. Recommendations in development. |
Justice | http://www.justice.org.uk | Disproportionality in youth justice - Project will examine the causes of BAME disproportionality in the youth justice system of England and Wales. it will make practical recommendations with a view to reducing it. | Project in progress |
Leaders Unlocked | http://leaders-unlocked.org/ | A forum of young adults to engage with aspects of criminal justice policy that affect 18-25 year olds | Report in progress |
Magistrates Association | https://www.magistrates-association.org.uk/ | To develop and promote knowledge of maturity among magistrates. | Project in progress |
Manchester Metropolitan University | T2A Pathway Evaluation MMU - A four year research study examining the impact of distinct approaches to young adults throughout the criminal justice system. | Process evaluation completed | |
National Autism Society | https://www.autism.org.uk/ | Criminal justice and young autistic adults - a longitudinal study on the people with diagnosed and self-diagnosed autism in the CJS. | Project in progress - the group are now engaging with prisons. |
Police Foundation | http://www.police-foundation.org.uk/ | Policing and young adults: practice development project - to test evidence based approaches to the policing of young adults | Work to start in spring 2020. |
Prisoners Education Trust | https://www.prisonerseducation.org.uk/ | Prison education for young adults: fair and effective - review of education in prisons for young adults. | Project in progress |
Prison Radio Association | https://prison.radio/ | Future prison podcast - the grant will produce six programmes facilitating a dialogue between BAME people, women and young adults with lived experience and policy leads in the Ministry of Justice. | In progress. |
Redthread Birmingham | https://www.redthread.org.uk/ | To intervene at A&E trauma centers with young adult victims of knife crime and gun wounds | Teams are on site and engaging young people and continue to raise programme awareness. |
Release (Legal and Emergency Drugs Services) | https://www.release.org.uk/ | Y-stop - a harm reduction approach to stop and search - to improve young adult interactions with police officers through better communications enabling encounters to be managed confidently. | Project in progress |
Revolving Doors Agency | http://www.revolving-doors.org.uk/ | New Generation: leading for resilient young adults - developing and sharing trauma informed policing practice for young adults. | Project underway |
University of Leicester | Sex offender Registration: justice for the young - the research project will investigate the impact on children and young people of being placed on the Sex Offender Register. | Project underway. |