{"id":766,"date":"2014-06-05T07:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=766"},"modified":"2014-06-05T07:56:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:56:26","slug":"living-in-fear-parliamentary-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/06\/05\/living-in-fear-parliamentary-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Fear – Parliamentary Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday 12th May 2014\u00a0along with project advisors Rob Marno, Allan Finn and Kathy Johnson,\u00a0 Lisa Richardson from the Tizard centre and\u00a0 Colin Guest project manager from MCCH attended a Joint meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Learning Disability, where they presented a summary of the findings and recommendations of the Living in Fear research project\u00a0 and described the Jigsaw project.\u00a0\u00a0The project is\u00a0currently being supported by \u00a0Kent Police and Medway Council\u00a0who are \"lif_lr\"<\/a>\u00a0piloting\u00a0 some of the key research recommendations in Medway, with participation from police officers, schools, transport, healthcare and public service providers.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.mcch.org.uk\/livinginfear\/index.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

Kent Police, who were partners in this three year Big Lottery funded research project were also represented by DCI Andy Pritchard and Superintendent Andy Rabey.\u00a0 David Quirke-Thornton, Deputy Director of Medway Council\u2019s Children and Adult Services also attended.<\/p>\n

The briefing was chaired by Robert Buckland MP and Lord Rix.\u00a0 First-hand accounts of disability hate crime were heard from Kevin Healey (an anti-bullying campaigner) and Richard Lawrence from Mencap.\u00a0 A response and discussion session with Norman Baker MP and Minister for Crime Prevention followed.\u00a0 The Minister identified two main routes to address hate crime: legal action and changing attitudes.\u00a0\u00a0 He felt that police and public attitudes and understanding of hate crime \u2013 particularly against those with learning disabilities or autism – need to change. He described how the College of Policing is leading on improving training for police officers in autism, learning disability and mental health so that officers can better support victims and those who come into contact with the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday 12th May 2014\u00a0along with project advisors Rob Marno, Allan Finn and Kathy Johnson,\u00a0 Lisa Richardson from the Tizard centre and\u00a0 Colin Guest project … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43796,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}