Last weekend, Nonsense and our friends at White October sent some troops along to help out with Social Innovation Camp’s latest initiative called Jailbrake – a 48-hour hack to make some tools designed to stop young people re-offending upon release from youth offenders institutions.

It was an awesome weekend, with developers and designers mixing with people who work in the youth justice system, as well as plenty of young people and people who had been through the system themselves.

We worked on an idea called FLIP, which basically uses Facebook to give people who have just been released a confidence boost and a kick-start to their CV as they start looking for a job. Based on the insight that unemployment is by far the biggest factor in youths re-offending.

I’ll embed a Slideshare of our final presentation here later. In the meantime, check out the Jailbrake blog, and keep up-to-date with all the photos and after-chat via the #jailbrake tag.

In all, there were 6 ideas and some awesome work done to take them forward. Plenty of interest from potential funders and partners in taking the ideas forward too. The FLIP team look to be organising themselves nicely with a Google group already and talking to some cool people at Care Matters about a possible trial.

More news here soon…