This year's lectures
What does leadership mean in prisons?
11 June
10am
Prisons are under scrutiny like never before and have faced much public criticism. With self-harm and violence in prisons at record highs, stubbornly high reoffending rates and a toxic mix of mental ill-health, trauma and drug misuse the challenge of trying to Change Lives within prison walls is vast.
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In prisons, leadership skills are required of all staff, not just Governors or Managers.
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➢ What styles of leadership are most effective in prisons?
➢ Is a different approach needed to solve the current ‘crisis’?
➢ Who sets the values and shapes a prison culture?
➢ How do staff influence those people in their care to turn their lives around?
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At this year's lectures we will explore the roles leaders play, their impact on services, and models of effective leadership.
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The Lectures will draw on a wide range of expert speakers, including Michael Spurr, former
Chief Executive Officer of HM Prison and Probation Service, Dr. Jamie Bennett, Governor of HMP Long Lartin, Dr Kate Gooch, Associate Professor at the University of Bath, and Dr Sarah Lewis & Stephen Robertson from HMP Guys Marsh. It promises to be a thought-provoking discussion, generating ideas about good practice.
About The Perrie Lectures
The Perrie Lectures is an annual event which has the purpose of stimulating dialogue between criminal justice organisations, the voluntary sector and all those with an academic, legal or practical interest in offenders and their families.
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The Perrie Lectures are named in honour of Bill Perrie, who retired from the Prison Service in 1978. He worked as a prison governor for 32 years, latterly at HMPs Hull, Long Lartin, and Winson Green, Birmingham. A sound practitioner, Bill contributed much to the development of hostels, working out schemes, and regimes for long term prisoners. Bill attended the lectures every year until his death in 1997.
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Since 1995, the Perrie Award has been presented annually during the day of the lectures. It has been given by the Perrie Lectures Committee to the person who has done most to promote an understanding of the work of the Prison Service, and pushed forward the development of penal policy.
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Through the Perrie Lectures and the Perrie Award, it is hoped that the care of offenders can be improved, and penal policy, in its broadest sense, advanced.
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The text of the Perrie Lectures is produced in full as a special edition of the Prison Service Journal.
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The Perrie Lectures Committee is independent and non-profit making and is currently made up of the following members:
Carlene Dixon
Chair
HMP Send
Alun Jones
HMPPS Communications
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Sarah Matheve
Koestler Trust.
Mike Kirby
Independent
Kimmett Edgar
Prison Reform Trust
Pauline Austin
New Bridge Foundation
Dr Ben Crewe
University of Cambridge
Louise Ysart
HMP Brixton
Ian Dixon
Independent
Anita Dockley
Howard League for Penal Reform
Martin Kettle
Church of England
Sarah Tiffin
Serco
HMP Dovegate
Mary Haley
HMP Grendon
Judith Feline
HMP/YOI Isis
Nicola Webb
National Probation Service
Matthew Tilt
HMP Onley
Kate Pounder
HMPPS - London Prisons
Lesley Dixon
Revolving Doors
Kam Sarai
HMIP
Colin Archer
Independent
The Speakers
Proud to bring thought provoking speakers from across the country
The lectures will be chaired by Omar Khan, director of the race equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust
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Speakers include:
Michael Spurr, former Chief Executive Officer of HM Prison and Probation Service
Dr. Jamie Bennett, Governor of HMP Long Lartin
Dr Kate Gooch, Associate Professor at the University of Bath
Dr Sarah Lewis & Stephen Robertson from HMP Guys Marsh
