MJW and Victim Support visit to No.10

MJW and Victim Support visit to No.10 – Roma Hooper

Posted April 23, 2012

In Community Sentences, Intensive Community Sentences, Roma's Blog, Victim Support

“Our chair, David Barrie, Javed khan CEO of Victim Support and I met with a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister at no 1o. It was an open and encouraging discussion and enabled us to talk about the joint piece of work which we are undertaking in late June to gauge the views of victims of lower level crime before and after visiting a higher level community sentence. The meeting further confirmed the challenge we have in improving the media, politicians and the public’s understanding of community sentences. They are simply not all community payback!” – Roma Hooper.

Roma Hooper and David Barrie at No.10

Roma Hooper and Javed Khan at No.10

Roma Hooper

Roma has worked in and around the criminal justice system since 1992, when she was asked to help set up Britain’s first prison radio station at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution. She has a Masters in Criminal Justice Policy from the London School of Economics, is Chair of the Griffins Society (supporting women in the criminal justice system), Vice-Chair of the Foundation Training Company (which runs a series of prison and community based resettlement and development programmes) as well as Chair and Founder of the Prison Radio Association. In 2010 she launched Make Justice Work, a campaign to highlight the cost of short-term prison sentences and to improve public confidence in community sentences.