Belong is looking for a reliable organised, energetic restorative justice facilitator to join its committed, specialist team.
The successful applicant will have solid experience of working within the criminal justice sector and preferably the prison service, with a track record of securing stakeholder engagement in programs and communicating effectively with individuals from a range of backgrounds. He or she will manage this project, deliver restorative justice interventions and support prison staff to deliver restorative justice interventions as part of the project.
The Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance is a coalition of 16 leading criminal justice, health and youth charities chaired by Joyce Moseley OBE. The Alliance helps to shape T2A’s policy positions and promotes a better criminal justice system for young adults to government, practitioners and the wider voluntary sector. Recently, T2A’s campaign management group undertook a membership audit of the Alliance, and identified the need for additional expertise on two current priorities.
The RJC is pleased to announce that Wales Restorative Approaches Partnership (WRAP) has been awarded the Training Provider Quality Mark (TPQM).
Jon Collins, the RJC’s chief executive, said:
“WRAP has demonstrated through successfully completing the TPQM that it is providing the highest quality restorative practice training. It is a great testimony to the whole team at WRAP that it has achieved this in addition to holding the Restorative Services Quality Mark (RSQM).”
The RJC is pleased to announce the publication of a new research report – Improving victim take-up of restorative justice.
The report, written by Janet Bright, explores the barriers to victims participating in restorative justice and what can be done to address them. It is the result of an eight-month research project which involved interviews with practitioners, service managers and victims - both those who had taken part in restorative justice and those who had chosen not to do so.
Last week, Sam Gyimah – a minister at the Ministry of Justice – confirmed, in an answer to a parliamentary question tabled by Labour MP Christina Rees, that the government believes that ‘there can be a place for restorative justice in domestic abuse cases alongside prosecution’.
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is recruiting a full-time Restorative Justice Facilitator, based at HMP Hewell Lane, Redditch.
The job holder will assess whether offenders and victims are suitable for a restorative justice victim/prisoner conference. They will prepare participants identify risks and put safeguards in place to manage these risks before they bring the victim and prisoner together to facilitate a conference. The job holder will also be required to organise and prepare rooms and resources for conferences.
The RJC is pleased to announce that Southwark YOS has been awarded the Restorative Service Quality Mark (RSQM).
Jon Collins, the RJC’s chief executive, said:
“Congratulations to Southwark YOS, who have shown that they are providing the highest standards in restorative practice through successfully completing the RSQM.”
When Alli’s house was burgled, losing irreplaceable memories of her mother left her distraught and with unanswered questions. Here, she explains how restorative justice gave her the chance to tell the offender how much he’d hurt her so that she could move on with her life.
