Our thanks to John for pointing us to the website of the Women’s Justice Board. Extracts:

The Women’s Justice Board’s (WJB) purpose is to reduce the number of women in prison and increase the number supported in the community.

It will provide the vision and direction on how to reform women’s justice to address the distinct needs of women in or at risk of contact with the criminal justice system (CJS)…

The members of the WJB are external experts selected by Ministers to set the vision for work to address the needs of women in the criminal justice system.

• Chair – Lord Timpson, Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, Ministry of Justice
• Dame Vera Baird DBE KC
• Michaela Booth, National Lead for Patient and Family Engagement at Practice Plus Group
• Bernie Bowen-Thomson, Chief Executive of Safer Wales
• Anne Fox, Chief Executive, Clinks
• Kate Green, Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester for Safer and Stronger Communities
• Lady Edwina Grosvenor, founder/now trustee of One Small Thing charity
• Dr Tom McNeil, CEO JABBS Foundation
• Dr Shona Minson, Research Associate, Centre for Criminology, Oxford
• Pia Sinha, Director of Prison Reform Trust
• Katy Swaine Williams, freelance consultant, including for Centre for Women’s Justice

(End of extract.)

We might have expected the odious hatchet-faced Vera Bloody-Baird to be a member. The only person on the list I’ve met personally is Kate Green, who was a Labour MP and Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities when we debated in 2016 at the University of Buckingham – here (video, 15:00). I’ve seldom received such appreciative comments for my debates with feminists.

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