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• 18/09/2020in Latest, Press releases and comment

  Open letter to Ministers Victoria Atkins and Chris Philp

  Back in July, the government responded to a Supreme Court ruling from January 2019, requiring changes to the filtering system. This week these changes have finally gone through parliament – but we have learned that there will be a delay of several months before they are signed into law, ostensibly due to time needed for...
• 17/09/2020in Latest, Unlock's blog

  ‘Anchoring, everlasting, uncertainty, resilience’: Researching the impact of criminal records acquired in youth

  Nicola Collett, a PhD student at Keele University, is currently researching the potential influence of a criminal record acquired between the ages of 10-25, later on in adulthood. Here she blogs about some of her findings so far. Almost three years into my PhD I am spending much of my time surrounded by scribbles, highlights...