Thames Valley Partnership
‘protecting victims, supporting offenders and their families’
The Thames Valley Partnership works in partnership with the statutory, private and voluntary sectors to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the problems of crime and social exclusion. We work to protect victims and reintegrate offenders. Our strength is in collaborative working and integrated approaches across sectors, particularly linking Criminal Justice services to voluntary sector and Local Authority providers.
Our broad spectrum of work includes programmes around the needs of families of offenders, work in the field of domestic abuse, support for victims, restorative justice, community cohesion, mental health issues, early interventions & initiatives around young people and arts related projects.
Find out more about the different aspects of Our Work.
News
TecSOS
The Partnership is pleased to be facilitating the roll out of a brand new project which will dramatically improve the outcomes for known domestic violence victims. The new TecSOS initiative funded by the Vodafone Foundation and working in conjunction with Thames Valley Police and the Met. uses the latest mobile phone technology to prioritise and highlight emergency calls from victims. The scheme, already successfully introduced in other parts of Europe, will be implemented across 8 police forces in the South East over the next few months.
The new project was revealed to the public on 29th September at the Tate Britain as part of Vodafone’s event to celebrate 20 years of ’Mobiles for Good’.
Initial findings are overwhelmingly positive – the new device is being wholeheartedly welcomed by victims
“ I feel safer when out and about “
“…..enables me to continue with my day to day life ”
Further information from john@thamesvalleypartnership.org.ukRead More -TecSOS – Times article
Cafe Conversations 4th October
Brainstorming Ideas!
The Partnership’s association with the New Leaf organisation offers informal support, through volunteer mentors, to short term prisoners leaving custody. Several New Leaf volunteers also staff the recently launched Court Desk.
We were therefore delighted to join them at their recent Café Conversations event held on 4th October at Aylesbury College. The evening brought together volunteers and steering group members for an informal evening of enthusiastic networking and ideas sharing!
For more information about New Leaf visit their website at www.newleafproject.co.uk
Art Transforming the Lives of Young People -Transit Dance
For those of you who were interested in the Transit Dance Project which was recently featured on this page, you may also like to read an article evaluating this project, written by well known writer and consultant Richard Ings.
