{"id":8249,"date":"2019-01-24T19:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T19:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2019-01-24T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T19:50:20","slug":"criminaljusticetop5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal Justice setting. Here are our top 5 &#8211; in no particular order!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Supporting Families in the Criminal Justice System: <\/strong>Sally Kedge, Speech and Language Therapist from Trouble Talking New Zealand shares two powerful case examples of using Talking Mats with children and families caught up in the\u00a0criminal justice system. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/support-for-prisoners-families-experience-from-new-zealand\/\">https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/support-for-prisoners-families-experience-from-new-zealand\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Communication Needs within Youth Justice \u2013 Part 1: <\/strong>On 17<sup>th<\/sup> April 2017, we organised a seminar to look at underlying issues and share good practice when addressing the communication needs of people in youth justice. We had representatives from: the Scottish government, the NHS; Third sector organisations working in youth justice, the police, social workers, professional bodies, universities and social work \u2013 from as far afield as New Zealand. The emphasis from the start\u00a0was that understanding communication is key to improving service delivery. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/communication-needs-in-youth-justice\/\">https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/communication-needs-in-youth-justice\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Communication Needs within Youth Justice \u2013 Part 2: <\/strong>The afternoon session of our seminar on 17.04.17 continued the underlying theme that communication support needs are often hidden and many looked after children have support needs that remain unidentified. The outcome of the day was the establishment of a collaborative network. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/youth-justice-and-communication-needs-2\/\">https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/youth-justice-and-communication-needs-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Setting up a SLT Service in Prison: <\/strong>This inspiring blog by\u00a0Jacqui Learoyd explores her role in setting up a speech and language therapy ( SLT )\u00a0 service in a prison and her use of Talking Mats in that setting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/setting-up-an-slt-service-in-prison\/\">https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/setting-up-an-slt-service-in-prison\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Has Talking Mats been used in Court? <\/strong>Two registered intermediaries talk about a couple of cases where Talking Mats was used as part of the achieving best evidence (ABE) interviews. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/talking-mats-used-court\/\">https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/talking-mats-used-court\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have been inspired and are not yet trained, come along to one of our Foundation training courses \u2013 for details see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/training\/foundation-training\/\">https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/training\/foundation-training\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We also offer online training if you are unable to access the training locations \u2013 for details see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/training\/online-training\/\">https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/training\/online-training\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,8,40,30,24,25,64,15,54,88,31,35,21],"tags":[13,16,20,23,26,28,32,39,50,89,93,94,97],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-blog","category-child-protection","category-children-and-young-people","category-communication-difficulties","category-criminal-justice","category-legal","category-learning-disability","category-talking-mats-principles","category-mental-health","category-police","category-safeguarding","category-training","tag-talking-mats","tag-learning-disability-2","tag-training","tag-communication-difficulties","tag-justice","tag-prison","tag-police","tag-young-people","tag-disclosure","tag-mental-health","tag-autism","tag-person-centred","tag-safeguarding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal Justice setting. Here are our top 5 - in no particular order!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal Justice setting. Here are our top 5 - in no particular order!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Talking Mats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TalkingMats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-24T19:50:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/talking-mats-facebook-e1632492821485.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lois Cameron\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TalkingMats\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TalkingMats\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lois Cameron\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lois Cameron\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef46a896b78222765c83c19afb277\"},\"headline\":\"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-24T19:50:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/\"},\"wordCount\":349,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"keywords\":[\"Talking Mats\",\"Learning Disability\",\"Training\",\"Communication difficulties\",\"justice\",\"prison\",\"police\",\"Young people\",\"Disclosure\",\"Mental Health\",\"Autism\",\"person centred\",\"safeguarding\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Autism\",\"Blog\",\"Child protection\",\"Children and young people\",\"Communication difficulties\",\"Criminal justice\",\"Legal\",\"Learning disability\",\"Talking Mats principles\",\"Mental Health\",\"police\",\"Safeguarding\",\"Training\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/\",\"name\":\"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-24T19:50:20+00:00\",\"description\":\"Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal Justice setting. Here are our top 5 - in no particular order!\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/\",\"name\":\"Talking Mats\",\"description\":\"Improving communication, improving lives\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Talking Mats\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tm-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tm-logo.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":191,\"caption\":\"Talking Mats\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TalkingMats\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/TalkingMats\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/talkingmatsvideos\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef46a896b78222765c83c19afb277\",\"name\":\"Lois Cameron\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddfa945e8152f1ef6d8756aab507db4c918a1e0627450d330ee3638eeea62825?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddfa945e8152f1ef6d8756aab507db4c918a1e0627450d330ee3638eeea62825?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Lois Cameron\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/author\/loisc\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs","description":"Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal Justice setting. Here are our top 5 - in no particular order!","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs","og_description":"Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal Justice setting. Here are our top 5 - in no particular order!","og_url":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/","og_site_name":"Talking Mats","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TalkingMats","article_published_time":"2019-01-24T19:50:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":630,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/talking-mats-facebook-e1632492821485.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Lois Cameron","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@TalkingMats","twitter_site":"@TalkingMats","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lois Cameron","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/"},"author":{"name":"Lois Cameron","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef46a896b78222765c83c19afb277"},"headline":"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs","datePublished":"2019-01-24T19:50:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/"},"wordCount":349,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","keywords":["Talking Mats","Learning Disability","Training","Communication difficulties","justice","prison","police","Young people","Disclosure","Mental Health","Autism","person centred","safeguarding"],"articleSection":["Autism","Blog","Child protection","Children and young people","Communication difficulties","Criminal justice","Legal","Learning disability","Talking Mats principles","Mental Health","police","Safeguarding","Training"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/","url":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/","name":"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2019-01-24T19:50:20+00:00","description":"Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal Justice setting. Here are our top 5 - in no particular order!","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/criminaljusticetop5\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/","name":"Talking Mats","description":"Improving communication, improving lives","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#organization","name":"Talking Mats","url":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tm-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tm-logo.jpg","width":800,"height":191,"caption":"Talking Mats"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TalkingMats","https:\/\/x.com\/TalkingMats","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/talkingmatsvideos"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef46a896b78222765c83c19afb277","name":"Lois Cameron","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddfa945e8152f1ef6d8756aab507db4c918a1e0627450d330ee3638eeea62825?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddfa945e8152f1ef6d8756aab507db4c918a1e0627450d330ee3638eeea62825?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Lois Cameron"},"url":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/author\/loisc\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}