The RJC is pleased to announce the publication of a new guide on restorative justice for candidates standing in the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections in May. Among PCCs’ many responsibilities, they will have a crucial role in the future development of restorative justice.
Since Ministry of Justice funding was given to PCCs to make restorative justice available to victims of crime in their areas, new restorative justice services have emerged across the country. As a result, more victims than ever before are able to access restorative justice.
Restorative justice received in-depth coverage in ITV’s Meeting My Enemy tonight.
Filmed over a two-year period, the programme followed the stories of offenders and victims in two separate cases, exploring what happened when they came face to face through restorative justice.
Joan Scourfield and David Hodgkinson’s 28 year old son James was killed by a single punch while on a night out in Nottingham. The perpetrator, Jacob Dunne, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to 30 months in prison, serving 14 before his release.
A couple of weeks ago the Peer Mediation Network published an open letter to Nicky Morgan, the secretary of state for education, calling for more action to promote the use of conflict resolution and restorative approaches within schools. The letter argues, rightly, that all young people will have to deal with conflict both at school and in later life, and that giving them the skills to do so positively and constructively should therefore be a higher priority.
The RJC is pleased to announce that three more services - Trafford Youth Offending Service Restorative Justice Service, Restorative Gloucestershire: Restorative Interventions Service and Nottingham City Youth Offending Team Restorative Justice Service - have been awarded the Restorative Service Quality Mark (RSQM).
The RSQM is a badge of quality that demonstrates that a service provides safe, high quality restorative practice that meets the six Restorative Service Standards. 28 organisations working in criminal justice, care and education have now achieved the award.
Liam and Jake* were teammates at a local football club, so when Jake harmed Liam after a training session, restorative justice provided a way for them both to move forward.
Do you want to be part of developing an exciting new project within the Thames Valley Restorative Justice Service (TVRJS)?
Accredited and renowned for high quality restorative justice interventions,TVRJS is seeking a highly motivated manager to provide operational management and development capacity for a new victim-initiated restorative justice service in the Thames Valley.
Last week the Prime Minister gave a major speech on prisons policy. The following day the interim report of a review of the youth justice system, led by Charlie Taylor, was published. The previous week the Home Secretary gave a speech outlining future plans to expand the role of Police and Crime Commissioners. And earlier that week the Prime Minister had announced a review of overrepresentation and racial bias in the justice system, to be led by Labour MP David Lammy.
In the wake of David Cameron’s speech on prison reform, the Restorative Justice Council (RJC) has published an information pack on restorative justice in custodial settings. The pack is aimed at making high quality restorative justice more widely available.
The RJC has published an information pack on restorative justice in custodial settings. This resource will support custodial establishments to understand the benefits of restorative justice and help make quality restorative justice more widely available.
