bthechange CIC

bthechange CIC Our team are vastly experienced in working with people with complex needs and from a range of diverse backgrounds and cultures.

Multi-award winning Community Interest Company spanning the Southwest of England and South Wales, dedicated to empowering first-time entrants, racially minoritised individuals, and women that are facing challenges within the criminal justice system. bthechange CIC is an award-winning Community Interest Company that operates across The Southwest of England and South & Mid Wales providing a range of life changing initiatives to directly support over a thousand individuals a year with moving forward with their lives that are either at risk of entering or who are in the criminal justice system. bthechange not only provides structured programmes for client support, but we also play an active role in system change, working with those ‘intermediaries’ whose policies, rules, processes, cultures, and attitudes affect people with convictions. We have specialists in our team that covers: Substance misuse (psychosocial motivational interventions relapse prevention – managing/recognising triggers), Finance Benefit and Debt, Welfare support including Housing, universal credit, bank account & I.D applications, Employment support – CV writing, job applications & Neurodivergent inclusive programmes. We are extremely committed and proud of being an equal opportunities and diverse organisation, of which is demonstrated by our team who come from a multitude of backgrounds, with varied cultures, beliefs, and sexual orientations. We truly are a company that represents society.

How common is domestic abuse?-We know from our work, and the work of the Women’s Aid federation of services, that domest...
17/12/2025

How common is domestic abuse?
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We know from our work, and the work of the Women’s Aid federation of services, that domestic abuse is very common, however this is often difficult to accurately quantify.

Domestic abuse is a largely hidden crime, occurring primarily at home.

Women often don’t report or disclose domestic abuse to the police (HMIC, 2014) and may underreport domestic abuse in surveys, particularly during face-to-face interviews (ONS, 2015). Prevalence estimates released by the ONS do not rely on police reports (they are based on data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales) and these headline figures do not take into account important context and impact information, for example whether the violence caused fear, and who experienced multiple incidents. When these factors are taken into account the gendered nature of domestic abuse becomes clearer, and female victims are more likely to experience a greater number of abusive behaviours than male victims. ONS prevalence estimates also do not tell us the s*x of the perpetrators.
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https://womensaid.org.uk/information-support/what-is-domestic-abuse/how-common-is-domestic-abuse/

17/12/2025

Hidden homeless: 'I slept on buses and in front of security cameras'.
More than 200,000 families and individuals across Britain are experiencing hidden homelessness, a 30% rise since 2020, according to new research from the charity Crisis and Heriot-Watt University.
Crisis defines the hidden homeless as people dealing with their situation informally - and who aren't included in official statistics - for instance by living in cars or sheds, sheltering in industrial buildings or sleeping on friends' sofas.
Maria, now 53, arrived in the UK in 2001 from Spain, working as a hospital cleaner before getting a degree in London, and then being employed by the NHS as a healthcare assistant for the next two decades.
But in 2021, Maria was sitting in her living room when a drink-driver smashed into the house she rented. She was injured and the house was left uninhabitable.
After suffering from PTSD and losing her job, she spent six months sleeping on buses, camping out in shopping centres and sofa-surfing.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c208qg8vw1go
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INFLUENCING PUBLIC OPINION ON CRIME._______________________Tom McNeil reviews the evidence on how organisations can infl...
15/12/2025

INFLUENCING PUBLIC OPINION ON CRIME.
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Tom McNeil reviews the evidence on how organisations can influence public opinion on crime for the Clinks Evidence Library.
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Earlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching and accessible evidence base covering the most common types of activity undertaken within the criminal justice system.

The latest addition has been written by Dr Thomas McNeil (CEO of the JABBS Foundation for Women and Girls) and captures some of the key lessons from the academic research into public opinion on crime. It summarises aspects of associated disciplines regarding how opinions are formed and theories on punitive sentiment among the public. It also provides recommendations on areas for future research.
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https://clinks.org/sites/default/files/2025-12/How%20voluntary%20sector%20organisations%20can%20influence%20Public%20Opinion%20on%20Crime%20Evidence%20Library%20-%202025%20%28V2%29_compressed.pdf

12/12/2025

Schoolboys to be target of UK's violence against women strategy.
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Hayley Johns is a survivor of domestic abuse and said "There needs to be proof and statistics to show this strategy is working and in a year's time there needs to be a difference otherwise it's just rubbish."

The government also wants to support victims who say failures by police and delays in court are worse than the offences themselves. More than half of r**e and stalking cases collapse because victims drop out of the process.

Many victims feel intimidated in their own homes and by economic abuse and coercive controlling behaviour, including stalking.

The strategy will aim to better support them, while justice is done.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c246l4mdg3jo #:~:text=BBC%20News%20has%20been%20told,stopping%20abusers%2C%20and%20supporting%20victims.
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