Read about progress on implementing the Corston recommendations and the launch of the Corston Independent Funders Coalition in today’s Guardian.

“Seeking to press for full implementation of the Corston recommendations, 19 independent foundations, including the Diana Memorial Fund and the Bromley Trust, have joined forces – in an effort that they claim is unprecedented – to hire a full-time advocate to press for Corston’s agenda.
Antonia Bance, a former Oxfam campaigner who started in the advocate’s post this month, says the new funds demonstrate real commitment. However, she warns: “A two-year pot of money isn’t going to achieve systemic change.” “

Journalist Beth Gardiner met Antonia Bance, Teresa Elwes from the Bromley Trust, Samantha Rennie from the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and Peter Kilgarriff from LankellyChase Foundation a couple of weeks ago. We had a good conversation with her about our hopes for the Coalition, and about the situation of women in the criminal justice system more broadly. Read the whole piece here.