There has been very little attention paid to the transitions facing girls and women who move from the care system to youth custody or adult prisons. Less still has been said about the challenges facing those making the transition back into the community post-punishment. Yet the transitions made between our systems of welfare and punishment require serious interrogation, and particularly through a gendered lens. This paper draws on a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation which included 94 interviews, including 54 with care-experienced girls and women in custody or the community, and 40 with a range of practitioners. Prioritising the voices of those with lived experience, this paper focuses particularly on the experiences of care-experienced women in prison in England and the injustices they face. Three key themes are explored: institutionalisation and fear of leaving prison, inadequate support and ongoing efforts to address this, and the challenges of (re)settlement and (re)integration (Graham & McNeil, 2017). In the current policy climate, characterised by austerity and a severe accommodation shortage, it is argued that the road to resettlement appears more challenging than ever.

The Women and Equalities Committee recently released a report documenting the experiences of women who have been subjected to misogyny in the UK music industry. The characteristics of UK music industry (MI) workplaces are not unique in that it is dominated by able-bodied, White, men. What makes the MI workplaces unique is that it lacks regulation, as well as traditional hierarchies of power, i.e. line manager, employee. Taken together, these characteristics create an environment in which sexually harassment can thrive. Surprisingly, the extent of this problem in the UK MI has yet to be explored. We developed the first national survey to address this gap.
The survey was disseminated through social media networks targeting those working in the UK MI and was available for 11 weeks. Of the 489 responses, most identified as White (87.6%) and straight (77.7%). Approximately half were men (54.0%). The average age was 38.40 (SD= 11.86). Participants had been working in the UK MI on average 15.71 years (SD = 11.15).
Eight in ten respondents (80.4%) reported being subjected to sexual harassment. While over two-thirds of men (67.5%) were sexually harassed, nearly all of the women (95.7%) were, suggesting that for women working in the UK MI being sexual harassed is the rule rather than the exception. Moreover, women (M = 137.42, SD = 143.65) were sexually harassed significantly more often than men were (M = 29.19, SD= 66.11), t(251.40) = 9.58, p < .001.
The findings from this study document the extent to which misogyny manifested as sexual harassment is embedded in the UK music industry – it is not only common it is endemic. This underscores the need for safe spaces that allow women to shatter the silence and to be at the heart of urgently needed change.

Given that Spice remains a key driver for increased vulnerabilities to harms in prison spaces in England and Wales, this paper presents a systematic analysis of secondary vulnerabilities to harms linked to Spice affecting women in prison. This paper offers an analysis of vulnerabilities to harms experienced by women who live in prison due to involuntary contact with Spice or due to institutional strategies in response to Spice, resulting in Spice harms. This paper seeks to assess the emotional, relational and physical impact on women prisoner’s health and wellbeing in relation to Spice. Five semi-structured interviews were conducted, transcribed and subsequently analysed thematically using NVivo Software.

This paper traces participants’ experiences of secondary vulnerabilities to harms linked to Spice along several dimensions. Vulnerabilities to and experiences of harms may be categorised by the areas of human existence to which they pertain, for example, the prison space, personal boundaries, or relationships. The conceptual contribution lays in an analytical understanding of the intersecting theoretical works on shared vulnerability and affect as they intersect with women's secondary harms experiences with Spice. This research provides a distinct perspective by amplifying the voices of a sub-category of women whose experiences are absent in our mainstream dialogues about harms linked to Spice and NPS more broadly. To the author’s knowledge, no published research has evaluated how incarcerated women’s vulnerabilities to harms are increased by Spice encounters and Spice strategies in prison.

This paper focusses on a collaborative research project aimed at working creatively with organisations and the community in one region of the UK to impact criminal justice, social care, education and health policy and practice and identify ways of sharing information to support young people who have been or are at risk of exploitation. Our work builds on a recent independent inquiry and prior collaborative work in the area. It seeks to identify opportunities, places and methods for more effective sharing of information from which the aim is to develop a co-produced model that can be implemented and tested.

Our research centres on key questions about whether it is possible to develop a co-created model for sharing critical information effectively to identify and serve young people at risk of exploitation. Secondly is it possible to build a model that is acceptable and usable enough to be adopted by local organisations. Lastly, can working within a co-production framework facilitate communication between key organisations and communities in a way that impacts the perceived quality of and access to public services. This paper will share early findings and reflect on working in a co-produced way within a community setting to address exploitation and harm.