Court Volunteers
We need volunteers to work in London Courts
Prisoners' Families and Friends Service needs volunteers to work in London Courts.
What Court volunteers do (role description)
What sort of person are we looking for? (Person specification)
If you would like more information e-mail courtproject@pffs.org.uk
Photo by David Levantis
News
Recruitment and training
Dates for the next training course are:
Thursday 19 January 2012
Friday 20 January 2012
Monday 23 January 2012
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Please apply online if you are interested.
Article about our service
One of our former court volunteers, Charles Hanson, has published an article about Prisoners' Families and Friends Service in the Inside Time Newspaper, called The Forgotten Victims.
Supervision and training - for existing volunteers
All court volunteers are expected to attend ongoing supervision sessions.
Professional Development Evenings
We arrange evening sessions with guest speakers approximately once a month. These sessions are open to our volunteers and also to prisoners families free of charge. Others are welcome, but a charge of £5 will apply.
Dates for 2012 so far are:
- 24 January: Jeremy Corbyn MP. He is a member of the Select Committee for Justice, and will be speaking about sentencing, including joint enterprise and IPP.
- 22 February: Nina Champion, Prisoners' Education Trust who will be talking about education in prison - what is available, who can apply, what to expect.
- 13 March: Olivia Longhi: Family Liaison Officer, HMP Wandsworth, who will be talking about her role.
- 18 April: Clare Taylor, Haringey Women's Aid, who will be talking about domestic violence.
Recent training evenings for volunteers have included the following guest speakers:
- A Probation Officer at Inner London Crown Court.
- A talk by a Judge who sits at Blackfriars Crown Court
- Prisoners' Advice Service
- The Parole Board
- Dave Taylor, Governor of HMP Wandsworth
- Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons.