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Hello! As some of you who were at the EPEA conference in Antwerp last year may know, I was elected as the representative for the Western Region which includes: England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. I am sorry it has taken so long to send out my first newsletter, due to a family bereavement. I look forward to getting to know you all and finding out what is happening outside of England, where I work for the charity Prisoners’ Education Trust. (I am the blonde woman with glasses in the photo below!) | |
Member Survey |
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In order to get to know you better, I would be very grateful if you could please complete this short ten question member survey by 30th June. The EPEA is a great way to share good practice, research, events, news and views on prison education. We want to know what you are working on so we can share it with others. We also want to find out what you want from being a member of the EPEA so we can improve our services. Filling in this survey, will really help us. Thank you in advance! | |
Updates from the Western Region |
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If you have any other updates from your country, please let me know using the member survey above and I will include them in future – thank you!
The event was a great opportunity to feature the positive work going on across the prison sector in Ireland and also gave the students in prison education centres an opportunity to be a part of the national commemorations. The president’s speech can be found here. Information about the Irish Prison Education Association can be found here.
Update on Klasbak branch: Klasbak vzw was officially established as a local branch of EPEA in November 2015 and brings together all those people who are interested in learning and (ex-) prisoners in Flanders (the Northern part of Belgium). Recently, a policy plan for 2016-2019 was finished. This policy plan has been developed with the input of over 50 participants, from different organisations and different fields. Their vision is “Society considers prisoners as full members of society and detention as a chance. Detention takes place within a challenging environment that encompasses an innovative and sustained learning environment wherein the focus lies on detained persons.”
Update on EPEA French Branch: The branch just received help from the French agency Erasmus+ France / Education Formation to participate to the Erasmus contact seminar + for Adult Education “Lifelong Learning in Prisons” Oulu, Finland 4-7 October 2016 and we hope that Joel Quedec, liaison person EPEA and teacher at Melun prison, should be present if the application is successful. We should be able to revive the French branch of the EPEA. The Chair is Marc Desjacques Deputy of U.P.R de Paris prison educational unit of Ile de France.
Up Update on Dutch EPEA branch (EPEA-NL): The branch has finally found a new chair! Veronique Achoui is following Annet Bakker, who as you know became the chair of EPEA Europe. Veronique is a very enthousiastic person with lots of ideas and a warm prison education heart! |
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UNESCO Chair in Applied Research for Education in Prison
UNESCO have announced they are going to produce fact sheets on prison education in fifty countries. They have asked the EPEA to assist them. By completing the EPEA member survey discussed above you will be assisting us in contributing to this UNESCO research. If you want to find out more, please see their latest newsletter here or their website here. International Day of Education in Prison – focus on sports in prison The EPEA set up the International day of Education in Prison on 13th October, the anniversary of the Council of Europe recommendations for prison education. Each year we will focus on a different recommendation. Being Olympic year, we have chosen recommendation 11 ‘Physical education and sports for prisoners should be emphasised and encouraged‘. If you have any examples of using sports-based learning in your prison, please let me know so we can include it in the EPEA magazine. Theory of Change for Prison Education On 10 June I launched a new report: What is prison education for? A Theory of Change exploring the value of learning in prison. I will be running a webinar on this subject for EPEA members. Please let me know if you are interested in this webinar, especially if you have done anything similar in your country. Events in the Western Region Criminal research: Writing wrongs in the creative arts in prisons – 22 June – Bath Spa University Realising Restorative Justice: Human Rights and Personal Realities, 9th International Conference of the EFRJ – 22 to 24 June, Law School of Leiden University, The Hague Prison education – aspirational and engaging education for all – 8 July, UCL Institute of Education (Annet Baker, Chair of EPEA and Nina Champion, Western Region Rep for EPEA both speaking at this event) Young People and the Justice System – Early Intervention, Education and Reducing Reoffending – Policy UK Forum – 13 September, Central London Prisoner Learning Alliance conference – 16 September, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales FORINER conference from 12 till 14th of October 2016 in London. If you have any questions, comments, reports or events, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best wishes. I look forward to hearing from you! Nina Champion Western Region Representative, EPEA |
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