After visiting my dad in prison & losing him at the age of 12 I never imagined myself to be working in a prison supporting the families walking through our doors, so grateful for the past 3 years of helping our lads & little boys & girls just like myself😊

It's #BirdFeedingMonth! We want to help you make your gardens the best place they can be for nature, so keep an eye out for tips & facts throughout February! To start us off, here's our basic guide to safe food for birds: bit.ly/2Y1WOuQ

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I am a Wuhan girl living in Hong Kong. Right now, all my close family is under lock-down back in my hometown, at the epicenter of this epidemic.

Morning all. It’s Day 2 of the #TwitterBirdsong adventure reprise. Today’s bird is a real treat. It has just about the most beautiful and uplifting song of any British bird (in my humble correctness). It is the blackbird.

When the platform is announced at Euston

My dogs A hug from my son Blackbird song Being with my dearest friends Walking by a canal The Isle of Arran Hearing a story of kindness in a prison

I may have just had a sneaky early peek at the HMPPSInsights programme for May this year. Honestly unbelievable range of free events for HMPPS staff and partners. New top addition: a day’s event on #rehabilitativeculture at HMP_Stafford. Featuring Stan and Ollie, the goats.

As book review editor of the Prison Service Journal, I’m encouraging reviews of classic texts as well as new ones. Today I received a review of a book (no longer available, I think) based on this study. How relevant and pertinent is this to institutions today? journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

There are at least 216 foreign words for positive emotional states and concepts that we don't have in English digest.bps.org.uk/2016/01/28/the… via @researchdigest My favorites: sprezzatura prajna mudita gigil nakama gokotta schnapsidee sobremesa and (of course) kvell & naches

Great day today with over 50 staff attending the first few sessions of our “Culture Q&A” training. Some interesting and thought provoking discussion. After our recent transition to the Cat D open estate, it was great to start to share positive feedback from our Residents (1/2)

Congratulations Nicholas Blagden I hear you did an excellent keynote on your #RehabilitativeCulture research in Antwerp this week. Sorry to miss it, can we persuade you to do a re-run for us? HMPPS Rehabilitative Culture Project Team

How Wealth Reduces Compassion - Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/how-we…

Thank you so much for the tweets and mails on the blog post. Having had a sleep, I thought it only right that I add a bit of balance to the piece. Otherwise it's just a rant and that's not useful to anyone. Updated at the end of the piece here: 7criminalminds.blogspot.com

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V interesting and timely account of the positive and negative experiences of language & terminology in a prison setting. I will continue to advocate for less stigmatising language, but I absolutely get the problem of this being experienced as tokenistic.