Children & Cannabis
Join our 1-hour lunchtime webinar to hear from leading experts
- Is the youth justice sector taking the correct approach to children and cannabis?
- Do we have the correct approach to assessing risk and are children ending up with the right outcomes?
- What are the facts?
- What does the law say?
- What are the implications of criminalisation and what does the research say?
- Are children criminalised by virtue of their age in relation to cannabis?
- What do approaches taken in other countries look like?
- What practical action can we take within the existing legal framework
Speakers
Stephen Cutter, Head of Legal Services, Release
Stephen is Head of Legal Services at Release, the national centre of expertise on drugs and drug laws. He oversees the legal team which provides free criminal legal advice through a national helpline and on a range of social welfare issues through community outreach legal clinics.
Jason Kew, Senior Practice Officer, Centre for Justice Innovation
In Jason’s time as a police officer, he came to understand the unintended consequences and subsequent damage caused by marginalisation and inequality within the justice system and became a passionate advocate for challenging stigma and diverting people away from the criminal justice system. He helped to develop the Thames Valley drug diversion scheme, which enables everyone found with controlled drugs an assessment of their use and education/harm reduction without the need for arrest, interview nor admission of guilt. This scheme has been a catalyst for health-based drug interventions across the UK and further afield, also leading to policy changes within education to negate the need for exclusions.
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£15 for non-YJLC Members.