NWJC co-launches Breaking Out of the Justice Loop Programme
The National Women’s Justice Coalition (NWJC) is proud to be partnering with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Naomi Delap of Birth Companions, and Liz Hogarth OBE to deliver the Breaking Out of the Justice Loop (BOOTJL) programme over the next year.
Shaping a new agenda for women’s justice reform
Funded by the JABBS Foundation for Women and Girls, the programme comes at a critical time, as the women’s justice sector approaches the twentieth anniversary of the Corston Report in 2027. Through a series of events, briefings and policy engagement activities, Breaking Out of the Justice Loop (BOOTJL) will bring together expertise from policy, practice, research and lived experience to help shape a renewed agenda for women’s justice reform.
The programme aims to challenge the cycle in which promising reforms are announced but fail to deliver lasting change. Instead, BOOTJL will explore how investment in prevention, public health approaches, and early intervention can improve outcomes for women and girls while reducing reliance on crisis-driven responses.
A unique feature of the programme is the central role played by NWJC’s National Voice and Advisory Panel (NVAP). Professionals with lived experience of the justice system will help shape the programme from the outset, ensuring that policy discussions remain grounded in real experiences and informed by those most affected by the system.
The first BOOTJL event, Future Generations: Preventing the Criminalisation of Girls and Young Women, will take place on November 11, 2026 and bring together leaders from across the sector to explore how we prevent criminalisation before it happens and create systems that better support girls and young women.
Discussions will consider:
- The challenges facing girls and young women today.
- How systems can work better together to prevent criminalisation.
- Who should be accountable for delivering lasting change.
Register to attend this free event online here
Future events will focus on the economics of reform and public health approaches, helping to build the evidence and momentum needed to achieve meaningful, long-term change. The insights gathered through the programme will contribute to a new policy briefing in 2027 aimed at parliamentarians and government officials.
As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the Corston Report, BOOTJL offers an opportunity not simply to reflect on progress made, but to ask what is needed to finally break the cycle of stalled reform and build a justice system that works for women and girls.