Jailbrake has started!

The Jailbrake weekend kicked off this evening at the Young Foundation in Bethnal Green, East London.

We had a crowd of software developers and designers, as well as people who work in central and local government, service designers and service users join us to start a weekend of intense activity to take our six back of the envelope ideas to break the cycle of youth offending and turn them into real projects – all in just 48 hours.

This evening was about conversation: talking to the people behind the ideas and figuring out who wants to work with who. But tomorrow morning the real action starts bright and early!

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Jailbrake is this weekend: sign up to come!

There are just three days left before the Jailbrake weekend and it’s shaping up nicely.

We’re really looking forward to welcoming an incredibly diverse group of people this Friday to Sunday at the Young Foundation in Bethnal Green; from young people working with Young Advisors and Access to Sports, to people from the organisations who support them, ranging from the Foyer Federation to the Police Cadets.

We’ve got service designers from Design Against Crime and participants who work at Learning Launchpad and the New Economics Foundation, alongside a whole range of people who know all about what it’s like to work in youth offending teams and with local and central government.

And then there are all the people coming with the technical knowledge to help us build the tools powering our ideas. We’ll be joined by people from Unboxed Consulting and Nonsense, together with freelance software developers and designers.

And we’ve still got a few places left.

So if you work with young people, or you’re a brilliant designer or software developer and you think you’ve got something to contribute to our six ideas, sign up to come!

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Join us for the Jailbrake weekend!

It’s been two months in the making, but finally the Jailbrake weekend is just two weeks away.

From our call for ideas, we’ve chosen six early-stage projects we’re going to be helping to make a reality in just one weekend from 6.30pm, Friday 26th March to 4pm, Sunday 28th March at the Young Foundation in Bethnal Green, London.

So now we’re looking for people who want to join us for the weekend and help build them.

Do you work with young people and know all about how the youth justice system works? Have you seen restorative justice in action? Have you worked to help resettle young ex-offenders?

Or perhaps are you a great software developer or designer? Or you might have service design, business, legal or other expertise that could be needed to get an idea off the ground.

Want to come and help build one of these ideas?

We’re looking for all sorts of talented people to get involved and come for the Jailbrake weekend: right through from people who have first hand experience of working with young people and the youth justice system, to those who can build some software and people who can work out how to sustain an idea in the long-run.

You can come along for all or part of the weekend and you can get involved in one particular idea or help out several different projects – just let us know when you’d like to come and how you can help by signing up here.

But be quick! Places are going fast and space is limited.

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