The 2nd Annual Restorative Justice Council Conference

Appointed on 24 June 2019 for a three-year term, Dame Vera is responsible for championing the interests of crime victims and witnesses and reviewing the operation of the Victims Code of Practice (the Code). 

In taking up the role, Dame Vera draws upon a wealth of experience combining political, legal and police expertise. She has a lifelong interest in fighting injustice and passionately believes our criminal justice system can only be considered successful if it delivers justice to both victim and offender.

In January 2018 Mike was appointed CEO of the College of Policing.  He draws upon a wealth of experience, which started in 1987 when he joined Lancashire Constabulary.   

In 2009, Mike was appointed Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police and in 2013, he was awarded a Queen’s Police Medal in the New Year’s Honours list.

He has been chair of the ACPO Counter Corruption Advisory Group, a lead for Professional Standards, lead of the National Policing Workforce Development Business Area and is passionate about diversity.

Jim Barton was appointed Senior Responsible Officer for the Probation Reform Programme within Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service in July 2018.

He is responsible for the design and implementation of the future strategy for the probation service. Jim has worked for the last 8 years in the probation service, initially at Staffordshire & West Midlands Probation Trust (responsible for a proposed pilot of Payment by Results), followed by Transforming Rehabilitation and three years in the National Probation Service senior team.

David’s work supports individuals and organisations to communicate constructively and change adaptively. Since returning to Melbourne in 2005, David has consulted independently, and been a founding committee member of the Australian Association for Restorative Justice, of which he is currently President.  He has also been Principal Consultant to the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce and, more recently, the National Redress Scheme.

Serena Jones works for Coastal Housing, a provider of social housing in south Wales. Responsible for delivery of core housing services, she brings expertise from a career in supported housing to shape services to be more relational, strengths based and person centred.

She is a reformed target and KPI setter.

Tom Procter-Legg is Head Teacher at Iffley Academy, a special school for children with a wide range of special educational needs and disabilities. His interests are in restorative leadership, how this drives culture and how creativity can become a restorative value. Most recently he has worked on the RESTORE model as part of a collective, exploring how restorative approaches can be used as schools return during COVID-19.

Dr Estelle Moore is the Trust-Wide Strategic Lead for Psychological Services, West London Mental Health Trust, and Head of Psychological Services, Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire, UK. She is a Chartered Scientist and Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology at Kingston University. She has worked in forensic settings, mostly high, but also medium and low secure settings for over twenty years with a longstanding interest in the understanding the role of the therapeutic alliance in treatment settings in sponsoring recovery and  outcomes.  Estelle is the Trust Lead for Restorative Justice having recently trained as an associate practitioner. She works with colleagues in a range of settings, including mental health units at all levels of security to promote restorative resolutions where harm has been responsible for conflict and distress.

Charlotte has worked in the restorative world for over 10 years as a trainer, facilitator and consultant and is highly experienced in both the fields of restorative justice (RJ) and restorative practice (RP).   Her organisation, REF, are currently working with 23 organisations across a range of sectors implementing RJ and RP including: health, education, the Criminal Justice System, statutory agencies and the executive workplace. She has just finished a one-year project for the British Council in Colombia; working with 50 young offenders (most whom had committed homicide) on a restorative justice community re-integration project in the city of Cali. REF won the Howard League Award for Restorative Approaches for their work with young people and the police. She has delivered restorative justice workshops at the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna in 2018 and at the TEDSummit in Canada in 2017. She speaks widely at conferences and recently spoke at the 2020 RJ World Conference. She also introduced the topic of RJ to the Justice Select Committee Enquiry in 2015. Charlotte’s specialism is Complex and Sensitive cases and she co-wrote the guidelines on working with Restorative Justice in Cases of Sexual Harm for the RJC. Charlotte has a Masters in Applied Criminology from Cambridge University researching RP in UK prisons.