“Sharing Social Innovation and Social Enterprise across the Border:
Best practice in the Justice sectors on the island of Ireland”
10am to 2pm, Monday 12th June 2017
Loughan House, Blacklion, Co. Cavan
Agenda
10.00 Welcome Michael Curran (Chair of the North-South Social Innovation Network
Steering Committee)
10.15 Social Enterprise Development in the Justice System
A New Way Forward - Social Enterprise Strategy 2017 -2019 (Siobhan
Cafferty - Probation & Irish Prison Services)
Social Economy Futures. Transition and Change Or Endings and Beginnings
(Cecilia Whitehorn - South Belfast Social Enterprise Hub)
11.00 Tea/Coffee and Networking
11.30 Innovating in Skills Delivery in NI Prisons: A case study from FabLab Nerve
Centre & Maghaberry
John Peto (Director of Education, Nerve Centre) & Paul Smith (Northern
Ireland Prison Service)
Presenting Loughan House - Eddie Mullins ( Govenor, Loughan House)
12.15 Panel and Discussion Session Learning from the criminal justice innovation
experience and cross-border opportunities for social innovation
12.45 Mapping Social Innovation on the island of Ireland Jordana Corrigan (Dublin
City University)
12.55 Concluding remarks Anthony Soares (Deputy Director, Centre for Cross Border
Studies)
1.00
Lunch
Speaker Profiles
A highly motivated, innovative and results driven business and local government
professional, with over 40 year’s leadership and management experience in both
public and private sector organisations. Extensive knowledge of local, regional,
national and European policies. Skilled in establishing and maintaining collaborative
approaches that has enabled job creation, enterprise and investment. Economic
Development Consultant- Hanley Energy Ltd Business Development Manager with
Hanley Energy Ltd, plus consultancy work with individuals, organisations and
companies.
Michael A. Curran - Chairman of
North South Social Innovation
Network Steering Committee and
Board Member of the Centre for
Cross-border Studies.
Having spent the past four years as the Executive Manager of the Bridge Project, Siobhán recently
commenced an entirely new role in November 2016, that of Social Enterprise Project Manager. This
role marks the beginning of a year long secondment to both the Probation Service and the Irish
Prison Service in order to develop a joint strategy on the development of social enterprise within the
sector. The practical experience of managing a community based project for a number years,
Siobhán saw first-hand how life changing securing employment can be for people with serious
convictions, their families and the wider community as they become active citizens. In many cases
however, multiple barriers prevented this from happening as the clients of Bridge still required some
basic, yet essential supports to make this transition into the labour market. Having completed a
Masters on the topic of social enterprise and a dissertation on the role it can and does play in the
employment of people with convictions, Siobhán firmly believes that the development of social
enterprises can achieve real results with people both leaving prison and on Probation bonds. In
short, social enterprises are businesses with a social mission and in many cases directly employ
those most excluded from the labour market.The Department of Justice and Equality and its
executive agencies; the Probation Service and the Irish Prison Service, are committed to exploring
the role social enterprise can play along the continuum of care for people with convictions. To this
end, Siobhán played a lead role in developing the recently launched Social Enterprise Strategy 2017
-2019 for the Department. Siobhán’s presentation will outline the four pillars of this strategy here
today.
Cecilia Whitehorn - Director of a
social enterprise co-operative
Social Economy Futures
Siobhán Cafferty – Social
Enterprise Project Manager
Cecilia Whitehorn is the Director of a social enterprise co-operative Social Economy
Futures. Cecilia’s experience with social enterprises is multi-faceted. She was a consortium
partner in the South Belfast Social Enterprise Hub, designed and delivered a toolkit for
social auditing to measure investment and outcomes return in social capital, designed
social economy programmes and provided mentoring support to assist the growth of social
enterprises and social entrepreneurs. She has been a European Ambassador for Women’s
Entrepreneurship. Cecilia carries out work in domestic and sexual violence, and with police
services across Ireland to assist peacebuilding and transition.
Speaker Profiles
John is the Director of Education at the Nerve Centre, responsible for a range of
projects that support Digital Creativity in Schools and Communities across
Northern Ireland. From a background in film and television production John has
overseen the establishment of Northern Ireland’s first FabLab’s (at the Nerve
Centre and at Belfast’s Ashton Centre) as well as operating the Nerve Centre’s
Creative Learning Centres and pioneering the use of Digital Creative Media in
Conflict Education through the Teaching Divided Histories Project.
John Peto – Director of
Education, Nerve Cente
Eddie studied professional cookery in Rockwell Hotel School in 1985 where he qualified as a chef.
Eddie joined the Prison Service in 1991. Initially he was assigned to St. Patrick’s Institution and
over subsequent years he has worked in the Following : Industrial Manager - Wheatfield Prison,
Assistant Governor - Midlands Prison, Governor III - Loughan House. He is currently assigned to
Cloverhill as Operation Governor.
He currently holds higher certificates in the following:
Strategic Human Resource Management, Executive Coaching, Mediation / Conflict Resolution
Mr Eddie Mullins –
Governor, Loughan
House
He is currently studying for his Masters in Business with The Irish Management Institute. Eddie is
very much a family man, he is married with three teenage children, he has a keen interest in health
and fitness and food.
Jordana Corrigan is based in the Office of Civic Engagement in DCU and
works across projects for NorDubCo and the North South Social Innovation
Network. Jordana is co-ordinating the mapping of social innovation
collaborations in Ireland for the network. Jordana Corrigan holds a BSc in
Spatial Planning and a MSc in Local Development and Innovation from Dublin
Institute of Technology.
Jordana Corrigan – Dublin City
University