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Empowering the Foreign National Population at HMP Wandsworth with the practical skills to engage with the regime, increase confidence, and access purposeful activity.
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Approximately 50% of HMP Wandsworth’s population are Foreign Nationals.
Catch22’s Foreign Nationals Support Service identifies all Foreign National men at the point of arrival at HMP Wandsworth and offers each of them a bespoke induction where they are offered support in the form of either one-to-one engagement or group workshops.
A priority of the service is to identify those who are particularly vulnerable, and to encourage them to access an enhanced level of support within the establishment. The service hopes to create an increased sense of community within HMP Wandsworth and to reduce isolation and segregation within the Foreign National population.
The Foreign National Support service is run by a small team of highly-driven individuals who possess a specialist skillset and a desire to provide an extremely high level of support to the increasing Foreign National population within London’s biggest prison. Their skills and passion make them highly effective in their roles, including language skills, backgrounds in Immigration and Extradition Law, and criminal justice experience.
The Foreign Nationals Support Service at HMP Wandsworth offers support including:
In the Foreign Nationals Support Service at HMP Wandsworth, we have a number of peer mentors (also known as Foreign National Representatives) who are all serving prisoners. They are spread out across the establishment, and the team does their best to ensure there is one representative on each wing, providing access to the service for everyone.
These representatives are appointed through an interview process and then receive specific training to support them in their role. They report to Catch22 on a weekly basis, and their key day-to-day tasks include:
While some of these representatives are Foreign Nationals themselves, others are simply eager to support the Foreign Nationals population within the prison.
Yes. This service offers volunteering and student placements.
Yes, some of our services offer volunteering opportunities and/or student placements.
Catch22 offers student placements within its Commissioned Rehabilitative Services (CRS) contracts, as well as some of its wider justice services. This includes with the CRS Interventions Team, Personal Wellbeing, Finance Benefit and Debt, Dependency and Recovery, Foreign National Service and its Victim Services.
Depending on the team you work with, opportunities might include:
To register your interest, please contact us using the form at the bottom of the page.
I’d been in Wandsworth for a really long time before I got this job. Since being in this role, I’ve learned a lot of new skills and have taken on a lot of responsibility. My relationship with staff has improved as well, and I’m learning new things every day which I think will help me in the future
Mohan, Foreign National Representative
The service supports hundreds of prisoners each month. [Catch22] make every effort to provide key information to prisoners who are finding the environment difficult and have language barriers. They have a caring and responsible attitude and facilitate group sessions for prisoners who may feel isolated. It is a well needed resource.
Learning and Skills Manager, HMP Wandsworth
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Naomi McGrath
Assistant Director, London
Referrals are accepted from within HMP Wandsworth: Foreign National prisoners can self-refer through the Kiosk system, and other agencies can refer into the service via the functional mailbox.
Please note that we are unable to accept referrals from friends or family at this time.
For further information, please reach out using our contact form, and a member of the team will get back to you as soon as possible.
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HMP Wandsworth, Heathfield Road, London, SW18 3HU
Telephone Number
0208 588 4000Catch22 Charity Ltd. manages the data you provide in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Catch22 may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
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Catch22 will only process your contact details and send you newsletters following your freely-given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent.
You have the right to unsubscribe from any of our email mailing lists at any time. If you wish to unsubscribe from a Catch22 mailing list please click the unsubscribe link on the latest email or contact dpo@catch-22.org.uk to ensure that you do not continue to receive email newsletters from us. We will need to continue to hold your details after you have unsubscribed to ensure that we do not send you further communications.
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Catch22 processes the data submitted through any of our website contact forms for the purpose of receiving your message and responding to it under the lawful basis of consent, which you give when submitting the form.
We will only use the information supplied to us to deal with the enquiry and any subsequent issues, and to check on the level of service we provide.
These contact forms are processed using the WordPress plugin, Gravity Forms. When these forms are submitted to us, notification emails are automatically generated to send your enquiry to the appropriate team within Catch22 who will store your email for as long as is required to deal with your enquiry and any subsequent issues.
Form submissions are also stored within the Catch22 WordPress database for a period of 90 days. This allows us to identify if there are any issues with forms being received by our teams. After this time, forms and all accompanying personal data are automatically deleted from the system. Gravity Forms does not receive copies of any of forms, or any accompanying personal data, that are submitted via the Catch22 website.
You have the right to withdraw consent for us to contact you at any time by contacting dpo@catch-22.org.uk. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, which in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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Complaints can be submitted using our online feedback form, by emailing feedback@catch-22.org.uk, or by post. Catch22 undertakes the processing of your complaints data as part of its legitimate interests.
When we receive a complaint from a person we make up a file containing the details of the complaint. This normally contains the identity of the complainant and any other individuals involved in the complaint.
We will only use the personal information we collect to process the complaint and to check on the level of service we provide.
We usually have to disclose the complainant’s identity to whoever the complaint is about. This is inevitable where, for example, the accuracy of a person’s record is in dispute. If a complainant doesn’t want information identifying him or her to be disclosed, we will try to respect that. However, it may not be possible to handle a complaint on an anonymous basis.
We will keep personal information contained in complaint files in line with our retention policy. This means that information relating to a complaint will be retained for six years from closure. It will be retained in a secure environment and access to it will be restricted according to the ‘data minimisation’ principle.
For more information, please see the Complaints, Compliments and Feedback policy.
The Data Processor (the organisation that does data processing on behalf of Catch22) is Totally.Tech.
Catch22 also works with third-party data processors to provide our:
We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it and retain it for the period we instruct.
Individual Catch22 services may work with additional third-party data processors in line with their contractual requirements. For more information, please see the relevant Service Privacy Notice, which can be downloaded from their service page on this website, or found by searching for the service by name in our Policy Library.
Catch22 may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or data processors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy notice.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
Except as provided in this privacy notice, Catch22 will not provide your information to third parties without your consent.
Catch22 will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure, encrypted password and firewall protected servers. As data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
Where information is held on our behalf by data processors, we will ensure, to the best of our ability, that they hold your information securely and in line with data protection legislation. We hold contracts with all data processors to make sure that they cannot do anything with your data unless we have instructed them to do so.
We may update this privacy notice from time-to-time. Check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
Please contact the Data Protection Officer if you have any queries regarding this Privacy Notice or if you would like to exercise or query any of the following rights afforded to you under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
- right to access
- right to erasure
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- right to rectification
- right to be informed
- right to restrict processing
- right to data portability
- rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
- right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) – via the Complaints page on the ICO website or by calling 0303 123 1113
For further information on your rights, please visit the Individual Rights page on the ICO website.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or of our treatment of your personal data, please email dpo@catch-22.org.uk or write to:
Data Protection Officer
Catch22
27 Pear Tree Street
London
EC1V 3AG
Catch22’s data protection registration number is Z1473239
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