Welcome to HMPPS Insights
That’s a wrap on Insights25!
To our amazing hosts
Thank you for organising an event at Insights25. You helped us to bring a vibrant and unique programme of more than 150 events with over 9,600 tickets registered to staff across the Criminal Justice System.
To all our attendees
Thank you for being part of Insights25. We hope you enjoyed your chosen events.
If you have any photos or videos of any festival events – either as a host or a guest – we’d love to see them and use them to celebrate the programme. Please send them to Insights@justice.gov.uk
Your feedback is important to us for the continued success of the Insights Festival. Please complete our short survey to tell us what worked well and how we can improve.
What is HMPPS Insights?
HMPPS Insights brings people together from across the Criminal Justice System to learn, share, connect and celebrate the excellent and innovative work that we do.
We are delighted to bring you the Insights Festival, as well as a range of exciting Events and Guest Blog articles throughout the year, created by you, for you.
What is the Insights Festival?
The Insights Festival is an award-winning programme of events which aims to showcase the breadth of innovative work taking place across prison, probation, youth services, voluntary sector and wider justice services.
HMPPS Insights Festival at a glance
- Four festivals since 2019
- Almost 18k tickets booked over 358 events at Insights23
- Proud winner of the 2022 Inspire Justice Award
Latest Insights Blog Posts
View our most recent guest blogs, where HMPPS staff and our partners across the public, private, and voluntary sector will be share knowledge, ideas, and best practice, as well as updates on new projects.
Kevin Wong is Reader in Community Justice and Associate Director, Criminal Justice at the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU), Manchester Metropolitan University. He is responsible for leading the unit’s work on criminal and community justice and voluntary sector delivery of justice services. He has over 25 years’ experience in criminal justice as a researcher, policy adviser, commissioner and practitioner. Kevin is Co-Editor of the British Journal of Community Justice a member of the Advisory Panel on Probation Learning, Chair of the Criminal Justice Alliance and a trustee of Manchester based charity Back on Track
Published on October 29, 2025
Read full articleCharlie Taylor was initially appointed as HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in 2020 and was reappointed in 2023.
Published on October 23, 2025
Read full articleNic Smith is an innovation and creativity professional in the MoJ’s learning and development function. He is currently researching the effect of art in shared corporate spaces for idea generation and problem solving.
Published on October 15, 2025
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