You can buy a copy here! https://t.co/BTjmx6dbPZ

Any professional whose job requires them to build relationships with complex and challenging people should consider looking to the best prison officers to develop these skills further. And anyone working in prisons should read this book!

At the heart of being a great prison officer is masterful relational practice. Prison officers support people who typically multiple professionals and services have failed to reach before, often since early childhood. Some in prisons have been written off by many other services.

So delighted to officially launch this book with @HFletcherWood last night! This step-by-step guide codifies the best relational practice we have seen on prison landings in the past decade. Our hope is that it supports prison staff to better support the prisoners in their care.

Last night, we celebrated the launch of our new book Leading Prison Landings: The Unlocked Guide to Jailcraft with colleagues, partners and supporters from across the criminal justice sector and beyond.

4. Prison needs to support people so they don’t reoffend post release. This depends on frontline staff with strong relational practice. That is what we see in good prison officers and have codified in this book. We should feel proud to learn from these incredible public servants.

3. Prison officers don’t have nearly enough respect for the incredible job they do (as shown through your thread actually). Yet some of the work the best officers do is the most impressive relational practice that exists. This book is dedicated to capturing and learning from that

2. This isn’t comparing criminals to children as you claim. This is recognising that many in our prisons have been through multiple systems where no one has managed to reach them. Here we codify the incredible practice of those exceptional officers who have reached them.

THIS is so problematic. 1. The children who schools fail to reach too often end up in our prisons, where, against the odds, some of the best officers help support them into education and activities. We try to codify what those officers do. We should all want to learn from them.

What IS scandalous is how little respect this incredibly important role gets from wider society. That people don't recognise a workforce looking after people with some of the most complex social problems, and challenging behaviours, and supporting them to turn their lives around.

Prison officers work with some of the most vulnerable and challenging people in our society. To reduce them to security guards is offensive. Often their role is picking up the people that our education system has failed, and supporting them to re-engage and rebuild their lives.

This reductive view of prisons is such a part of the problem. Of course feeling safe is essential for rehabilitation, but excellent relational practice in a prison is about so much more than compliance or control - it is about creating an environment of trust, support and hope.

Teach Like a Champion demonstrates the value of identifying and describing effective practice. It gave professionals the tools they need to learn and improve. Now, with @unlockedgrads and @NPorter_, we've done something similar for prison officers https://t.co/6zSYyuyg78

Josh Macalister, Georgia Gould and Liv Bailey in DfE makes for an absolute dream team of talent 🤩

Great thread and blog by @HFletcherWood who worked with me to codify the @unlockedgrads blueprint of effective prison officer strategies into this practical guide: Leading Prison Landings 👇

Really enjoyed presenting at #rEd25 today, focusing on what schools and teachers can learn from the best prison officer practice to help them better support pupils who are hard to reach. Also just such a joy to be around so many motivated people! @researchED1 @tombennett71

Im really looking forward to speaking at #rED25 for the first time in a few years! Will be talking about a subject I’m increasingly interested in: what can schools and teachers learn from prisons and prison officers about how to engage and support the hardest to reach

Blast from the past at this Policy Exchange launch of @NickGibbUK book! As a teacher, school leader and now parent, the reforms Gibb fought for have been transformational. Such a powerful example of the hugely positive impact a committed and dedicated minister can have.

Some great stuff I heard from officers and ex prisoners at @unlockedgrads last week: “Change is built with one conversation, one interaction at a time” “We are not just change to the system - we are disrupting it” “There is so much talent amongst people who’ve been written off”

Having @AlisonLiebling speak at @unlockedgrads training this week was brilliant. Main take aways: the difference between “I-it” and “I-thou” officers, the need for meaningful and professional relationships between staff and prisoners and the call to “be a light” as an officer 💕