Compare Campaigns For Change
*link to my campaign wherever relevant*
Unlock: Campaign For A Change In Policy:
• a charity that was founded by a group of former prisoners that wanted to use
their experiences to help better the lives of people with criminal convictions
• aims to help previous offenders move on in life
• aimed at political parties and organisations to influence change
• they want to change the system that has created stigma and is prejudiced
towards those who hold criminal records
• they focus on the long-term effects criminal records have not just on
individuals themselves but along with families, organisations, communities and
society as a whole
• the blog is used like a diary
• provides detailed updates regularly regarding the progress of their current
campaigns
• useful for members of society who are already aware about Unlock and are
interested in keeping up to date with new developments
• directors of their campaigns are able to display information directly to anyone
that accesses their website through Unlock’s blog
• there is also the inclusion of links to sources of information that are relevant to
what the campaign is working on and this is useful for those who are in charge of
carrying out research on how convicted offenders are treated upon the
completion of their sentences and integration back into society
• they also provide one-to-one personal support for those who would like it in
order to help them navigate their way through life with a criminal record
• they work in partnership with volunteers in order to achieve positive results for
their campaign, which can be done through media appearances
• as a result of Unlock, people have been able to improve their resettlement
chances and suffer less social exclusion - they are able to move on with their
lives in positive ways
• success: 74 prison/banking programmes have been set up along 114 prisons
having links to a high-street bank
Sarah’s Law: Campaign For A Change In The Law
• allows people to be able to ask police if specific people who have access to
children have previous convictions for child sexual offences
• this law was introduced during the aftermath of the abduction and murder of
an 8 year old school girl, Sarah Payne, that was carried out by known paedophile
Roy Whiting in 2000 (Whiting had previously been convicted of kidnapping and
assaulting another young girl in 1995)
• Sarah’s mother, Sara Payne, campaigned for a change in law so parents would
be able to access information regarding sex offenders by doing public
appearances which helped add a personal element to the campaign that
increased support from the public who were sympathetic to the cause
• this campaign received a lot of media support, such as from the News Of The
World newspaper that published the names and photographs of 50 people who
were thought to have committed sex crimes against children - this increased the
campaign’s profile
• however, along with increasing the campaigns profile it also resulted in an
increase in violent crimes, vigilantism and mistaken identity
*link to my campaign wherever relevant*
Unlock: Campaign For A Change In Policy:
• a charity that was founded by a group of former prisoners that wanted to use
their experiences to help better the lives of people with criminal convictions
• aims to help previous offenders move on in life
• aimed at political parties and organisations to influence change
• they want to change the system that has created stigma and is prejudiced
towards those who hold criminal records
• they focus on the long-term effects criminal records have not just on
individuals themselves but along with families, organisations, communities and
society as a whole
• the blog is used like a diary
• provides detailed updates regularly regarding the progress of their current
campaigns
• useful for members of society who are already aware about Unlock and are
interested in keeping up to date with new developments
• directors of their campaigns are able to display information directly to anyone
that accesses their website through Unlock’s blog
• there is also the inclusion of links to sources of information that are relevant to
what the campaign is working on and this is useful for those who are in charge of
carrying out research on how convicted offenders are treated upon the
completion of their sentences and integration back into society
• they also provide one-to-one personal support for those who would like it in
order to help them navigate their way through life with a criminal record
• they work in partnership with volunteers in order to achieve positive results for
their campaign, which can be done through media appearances
• as a result of Unlock, people have been able to improve their resettlement
chances and suffer less social exclusion - they are able to move on with their
lives in positive ways
• success: 74 prison/banking programmes have been set up along 114 prisons
having links to a high-street bank
Sarah’s Law: Campaign For A Change In The Law
• allows people to be able to ask police if specific people who have access to
children have previous convictions for child sexual offences
• this law was introduced during the aftermath of the abduction and murder of
an 8 year old school girl, Sarah Payne, that was carried out by known paedophile
Roy Whiting in 2000 (Whiting had previously been convicted of kidnapping and
assaulting another young girl in 1995)
• Sarah’s mother, Sara Payne, campaigned for a change in law so parents would
be able to access information regarding sex offenders by doing public
appearances which helped add a personal element to the campaign that
increased support from the public who were sympathetic to the cause
• this campaign received a lot of media support, such as from the News Of The
World newspaper that published the names and photographs of 50 people who
were thought to have committed sex crimes against children - this increased the
campaign’s profile
• however, along with increasing the campaigns profile it also resulted in an
increase in violent crimes, vigilantism and mistaken identity
