Pressure Group Campaigns

Question 1

Howard League for Penal Reform

Answer 1

what ?
- pressure group, reform prison system, improve experience - books like ur boss

key parties :
- frances cook - cheif executive of charity
- funded by national lottery

how did it change peoples views ? :
- worked with young people in custody and took concerns to police

policies :
- ended strip searching
- ended youth offenders for girls
- 17 year olds to be treated as adults

Question 2

ASH

Answer 2

what ?
- public health charity set up by the Royal College of Physicians to end the harm caused by tobacco

key parties :
- several networks who fund them and work with them eg cancer research
- board of trustees

how did it change peoples views :
- want to protect non smokers as well as shifting public attitudes towards smoking

policies introduced :
- ASH uses funding to influence policy on a taxation and smuggling, health inequalities, harm reduction, and smoking and young people
- Also works to raise awareness of the methods used by the tobacco industry to influence public health policies.