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Members' Bulletin - December 20

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Coventry Youth Offending Service awarded Registered Restorative Organisation status

James Simon
10 December 2020

The RJC are pleased to announce that Coventry Youth Offending Service have been awarded Registered Restorative Organisation status.

Long standing members of the RJC, Coventry Youth Offending Service, are the first youth offending service to transfer from our Restorative Service Quality Mark (RSQM) to the RJC’s newly launched Registered Restorative Organisation status. By achieving this status, Coventry Youth Offending Service have demonstrated a commitment to delivering high quality restorative practice to nationally agreed standards.

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Job opportunity: Communications Officer

19 November 2020

Wales Restorative Approaches Partnership (W.R.A.P.) is a Community Interest Company, not for profit, multi-stakeholder, co-operative company.  The organisation is a centre of excellence for delivering restorative approaches training, practice and consultancy.  They work across all sectors, and enjoy partnerships with many of those people they work with.  Established in 2014 by a small team to deliver restorative approaches to service users within various sectors including education, criminal justice, families, business and communities.  They are sector leaders of restorative practices and h

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RJC 2021 Conference: Feedback

 
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Thank you for joining this year's conference. We hope you enjoyed the range of sessions and speakers throughout the event. 

Recordings from the event will be available within the next 7 days. We will contact you again with instructions on how you can access these. 

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Members' Bulletin - November 20

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Members' Bulletin - November 20

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Membership Trustee Voting Form

 
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Membership Trustee Elections - November 2020

The board of trustees is the RJC's governing body. Our role as a board is about corporate governance – collectively setting goals and ensuring that the RJC works effectively to meet those goals for the public benefit.

Trustees play a vital role in guiding and enabling our work. Seven RJC trustees are elected directly from the membership. They reflect the broad field of restorative practice and act in the best interests of the RJC to help us meet our charitable aims and fulfil our vision for everyone to have access to quality restorative practice. We currently have three membership trustee vacancies and are delighted to present three candidates nominations for your consideration. 

You may cast your vote using our online voting form below or in person at our AGM on the 20th November 2020. 

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As a member of the RJC you are able to vote for your membership trustee representatives. As we have three vacancies, you are entitled to cast three votes. 

Below, you will find a profile for each candidate followed by your voting options. Online voting will close on the 18th November 2020. We will be announcing our new membership trustees during the AGM on the 20th November 2020. 

 

About You

 

Your Candidates

 

Candidate One 

Rebecca Rushton 

I am applying for an additional term as a trustee as I have really enjoyed being able to contribute to RJC practice on a national level and to help develop the standards and guidance for RJ practitioners across the country. I have really valued being able to contribute my knowledge and experience to help lead the standards committee to undertake a full review of our standards and guidance. I feel I have developed a good understanding of the RJC vision and still feel we have a lot to achieve and accomplish and would like to continue to support this development.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the learning and development opportunities this trusteeship has given me and still feel there are areas of practice that I can further help support and develop. The skills I feel I bring to the role are my experience and knowledge of working particularly with complex and sensitive cases, an area that the RJC want to further develop. I have been a restorative practitioner for 12 years and I am also accredited and feel this helps to support our membership when they have grass root questions, queries or concerns. I am passionate about RJ practice and see the value in its application across all fields of practice, which is something I would been keen to support and promote within the RJC.

I feel I have contributed a lot to the RJC over the last 3 years including the following:

  • Undertook and contributed to a full review of our standards and guidance documentation
  • Contributed to standards consultation review and response
  • Attended and provided support at our national conference
  • Been available and attended all trustee meetings
  • Participation in international podcast with Australian colleagues around standards/practice  
  • Involvement in sensitive and complex case working group
  • Supported other RJC members and organisations
  • Contributed to Victims code consultation
  • Contributed to Resolution
  • Supported with the writing of our remote practice guidance
  • Attended and co-presented some of the Connect events during lockdown
  • Delivery of CPD paid event for Death by Dangerous Driving
  • Planned 2nd delivery of CPD event for Death by Dangerous Driving
  • Supported the CEO in the accreditation product review

What I wish to achieve as a trustee

My focus for the RJC for the next term would be about making sure the standards continue to reflect best practice and are robust and up to date. Equally as the chair of the standards committee I would like the opportunity to finish off the work I have started with the sensitive and complex working group and feel that I still have a lot to offer in terms of my knowledge and experience as a grass root practitioner.  With these unprecedented times I want to continue to support the growth and development of the RJC and feel with being a previous trustee I understand the importance of keeping a good pace and how we need to sustain the good progress that has already been made which perhaps a new trustee may not understand.  

 I would also like to help develop a calendar of CPD events for the year so that the RJC continue to have a presence and that we continue to support members with practice difficulties with certain sectors such as prison/probation. I have really valued working alongside some very talented and hugely passionate people who have collectively helped to rebuild the RJC and I would very much like to continue to help build and support the RJC’s continued success.

Do you support this candidate's nomination to become a membership Trustee?
 

Candidate Two

Phil Cawley

After serving for 30 years with the Lancashire Constabulary as a police officer, on retirement in October 2011, I joined the forces newly established RJ team. From a position where officers and PCSOs were delivering for mainly low-level offences, I arranged for the team to be trained to deliver RJ and now the force uses it for a much wider range of criminal offences, including those classed as serious and complex.

Similar to most providers, up until around 2016, the force did not use RJ for cases involving sexual or domestic violence. After listening to two presentations were rape victims recounted their experience of RJ, I obtained agreement from force senior management to consider RJ for such offences. Since this time, we have used RJ interventions for many such offences.

In 2016 I successfully sought extra funding from the PCC and the team was expanded and I became the force RJ manager. As my role developed, the force started to run its own RJ training and as the force lead for RJ training I have run many 3-day RJ training course for internal staff and volunteers and also for other agencies and institutions including YOTs, HM Prisons’, care homes, housing providers and the University of Central Lancashire. As a result of my collaborations, the Lancashire Constabulary is virtually the sole provider of RJ in Lancashire.

In 2017, I led for the force on meeting the requirements for the RSQM which we subsequently achieved and later in my lead trainer role, helped achieve the TPQM.

After a further brief retirement, I returned as the force’s RJ promotional lead and my role is now to promote RJ across Lancashire Police and other agencies and partners. This requires me to train and give familiarisation inputs across the county to a wide variety of audiences including other agencies, educational establishments and universities.

As well as promoting RJ I have an extensive case load and am currently progressing cases involving death by dangerous driving, murder, rape, historical sexual abuse and domestic violence. As a result of my extensive experience of dealing with these cases, the RJ manager has selected me to lead on the case supervision of serious and complex cases and I hold regular meetings with the other members of the team to supervise their cases.

I am currently part way through a PhD at LJMU researching convicted male sex offenders and RJ.

What I wish to achieve as a trustee

The delivery of RJ over the last 9 years has given me the most rewarding and full-filling period of employment since I left college in 1979. It is a privilege to facilitate powerful and emotional conferences where victims and offenders benefit from this meeting.

However, it is true to say though, that the provision and practice of RJ is not consistent across England and Wales and I have heard (from colleagues) and witnessed myself, examples of poor delivery which had the potential to revictimise participants. As a result, I believe that the work the RJC is undertaking to identify and set standards is crucial to the effective and safe delivery of RJ. I believe I can assist in this and not only that, I also want be part of an organisation that not only establishes these standards but also monitors them and shares good practice.

I also believe in the RJCs campaign to better fund RJ provision and make it more readily available across England and Wales. I think it is important that practitioners like myself contribute to the various debates about its use and the best means I can achieve this is through contributing to the RJCs work. I feel that my varied policing background and extensive RJ experience will be of benefit to the RJC and will help contribute to the continued development and use of RJ in the future.

Do you support this candidate's nomination to become a membership Trustee?
 

Candidate Three

Sarah Cairns

I am a passionate and experienced Restorative Justice practitioner with over 10 years’ experience, all of which has been spent as a volunteer facilitator for my local Restorative Justice provider.  During this time, I have facilitated a high number of restorative interventions across a wide variety of settings including both the adult and juvenile secure estate, community dispute resolution, family work, Youth Justice, schools and Children’s Social Care.  I specialise in serious and complex casework including homicide, harmful sexual behaviour and domestic abuse.   have an Open University BSc in Social Policy and Criminology, City and Guilds Level 4 Diploma in Restorative Justice and have successfully completed training for specialist and complex casework, casework supervision and train the trainer courses.  I derive great energy from supervising and mentoring new facilitators to help them to develop their skills to deliver high quality interventions.

Within my paid role I work for a Local Authority Children’s Services where I develop and deliver training to social care practitioners, all of which is focussed upon improving outcomes for vulnerable children through a restorative approach.  Most recently I have co-developed a Leadership Programme for staff and provided critical friend oversight of the programme.  I also led a successful project on the whole school adoption of a restorative approach in a local school which had high levels of exclusions. 

Prior to my work in the Local Authority I provided consultation for a University research project which was developing a scheme that established a restorative justice response for elderly people who were experiencing abuse in their own homes.  The aim was to improve the options for those affected who might otherwise not take action as to do so would require involving the police and criminalising a member of their family. 

I have also worked for a local charity that supported families who had a family member in prison and was regularly involved with writing bids to secure funding.  Additionally, I served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force where I developed excellent organisational and strategic planning skills, financial governance and was used to working under pressure to tight deadlines.  It was here that I developed excellent public speaking skills which have led me to be a confident and accomplished trainer and presenter.

What I wish to achieve as a trustee

As a passionate advocate of quality restorative justice interventions, I have seen at first hand the transformative power that this can have on individuals, families, and the wider community.  With the breadth of experience, not just at practitioner level that I bring, I believe I have the experience and skills to assist the RJC to continue to develop and broaden the application of restorative practices, to make it accessible for all and to ensure that this work is of a high standard.

My membership and accreditation from the RJC is something which I hold very dear and I am keen to develop the relationship between the membership and the board of trustees by working collaboratively to continue to collectively shape and develop the future direction of the council.  The Covid-19 crisis has shown that now more than ever there is a need to broaden the application of restorative practices.  I am keen to translate the theory of restorative from words on a page to actions in communities so that where we live, work and learn become spaces where we connect and collectively resolve conflict.

Partnership working is critical in my job and a particular strength for me.  As a trustee I would be keen to support the board and utilise the broad range of skills from within the RJC to provide an offer to our membership that grows skills and develops opportunities for the wider availability and application of restorative work.  

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Job opportunity: Communications Officer

27 October 2020

The Mint House (Oxford's Centre for Restorative Practice) is looking for a creative and engaging communicator who can help us grow understanding and use of restorative approaches. They are looking for someone who can strengthen their profile, engage diverse audiences and generate compelling (mainly online) content that links restorative approaches to key policy agendas and everyday concerns. You'll also play a key role in helping them share learning on what high quality restorative approaches mean in practice, and the difference they can make.

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Job opportunity: Administrator - Restorative Justice (Cardiff)

21 October 2020

Wales Probation Services is a division of Kent, Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company (KSS CRC). They provide a broad range of probation services for those on community orders or licenses. They focus on quality of practice to reduce re-offending, improve the safety of the communities they serve and improve the life-chances of their service users.

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Job opportunity: Part time Restorative Practitioner

17 October 2020

The Remedi team in Stockport are looking for a Restorative Practitioner to organise and supervise reparation hours and run restorative action projects with young people in the Youth Offending Service. Their new team member will spend most of their time in the community with young people aged 10-18 fulfilling the reparative element of their order. Remedi are looking for someone who can work creatively to engage young people and support them to come up with project ideas to benefit their community as well as work with placements in their local community.

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