The Restorative Justice Council (RJC) is looking for members to facilitate Continuing Professional Development (CPD) workshops. We are running ten workshops in 2015-16 and RJC members are invited to submit an expression of interest form to facilitate one of these workshops.
Catch-22 is seeking an experienced head of service to lead its Victim First service in Leicester. Are you passionate about assisting victims and have the experience to ensure victims receive dedicated, bespoke services? This is a great opportunity to join the new Victim First service for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
The IARS International Institute is looking for a projects co-ordinator (justice). They are looking for a confident and expert team member with proven experience in delivering and developing research and evaluation projects on justice including but not limited to restorative justice.
Under the headline ‘The school that says there’s no such thing as a naughty child’, yesterday’s Mail on Sunday contained an article on a primary school that - as is made clear in a more positive recent feature in Schools Week - is run on restorative principles.
The RJC is looking for a senior research officer to lead an exciting new project on women’s experiences of restorative justice.
The post holder will lead a research project exploring female offenders’ access to and experience of restorative justice, looking at what could be done to better enable female offenders to participate in restorative justice and to ensure that those who do take part have a positive experience.
Wait 'til Eight is an essential start-up guide to the restorative justice scheme implementation by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).
Written by Thames Valley Partnership in collaboration with Restorative Solutions and funded through the NOMS Restorative Justice Capacity Building Programme, the guide is based on the 12 years' practice experience of Thames Valley RJ Service's delivery of community and custody based restorative justice conferences. It offers a framework for a methodical approach to planning and implementing a restorative justice scheme.
Jessica Kingsley Publishers are offering RJC members a discount of 15% off the cover price of restorative practice books plus free postage and packing. This will be available until midnight on 12 July. The books on offer include:
The RJC is pleased to announce that two more youth justice services have achieved the Restorative Service Quality Mark (RSQM). Gateshead Youth Offending Team Restorative Justice Service and the Restorative Justice Team at Essex Youth Offending Service have become the latest services to attain the RSQM.
The University of Sheffield were commissioned by the government to evaluate three restorative justice schemes between 2001 and 2008. The results of the research, published in four reports, was resounding - restorative justice works.
