Promoting Volunteerism in Youth Justic

Ronan Mc Loughlin, APPO, The Probation Service, attended the annual Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development (ACJRD) conference in Dublin, Ireland last week. The conference was focused on Youth Justice and its evolving needs. Ronan spoke to the conference on the growing demand for volunteers in the justice sector and the need to support them through effective training and service development. He spoke about the CoPPer project, its planned launch in November and its impact across Probation Services across Europe.