Resolution Online

We were recently asked our views on whether now is the right time to engage with the National Police Chiefs' Council to review their guidance on the use of the restorative justice in cases of domestic violence. Members' were concerned that the existing guidance, originally produced by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), is not consistently being implemented which has, understandably, created confusion amongst practitioners.

The RJC are pleased to announce that Restorative Now have been awarded Registered Training Provider status.

Long standing members of the RJC, Restorative Now, are the first training provider to transfer from our Training Provider Quality Mark (TPQM) to the RJC’s newly launched Registered Training Provider status.

Jim Simon, the RJC’s chief executive said:

The time of (inter)national crisis requires dialogue and responsiveness to one another’s needs. Restorative practice offers an active space in civil society to help people and communities hear and heal. RESTORE has been collaboratively developed by a collective of restorative practitioners, researchers and activists in education to address these needs in education settings.

The Victims’ Code is the statutory document which sets out the minimum level of services that victims of crime should receive from criminal justice agencies and other organisations in England and Wales. It came into effect in 2006, having been required by the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. It built on the support for victims within the Victims’ Charter, which was introduced in 1990 and which set out for the first time the levels of service victims of crime should expect. The Code was updated in 2013 and again in 2015.