RJC Trainers Register

Restorative Training Services and Restorative Justice 4 Schools

Restorative Training Services offer training and consultancy within a broad range of settings but especially Youth Offending, Probation, Police and Look After Children. We offer level one and two restorative training and our training courses are designed to enable organisations to use a restorative solution focused approach to their work. This will enable your staff resolve conflict and to help those you care for become empathic, self-regulators who are able to repair harm caused.

Restorative Justice 4 Schools is a high quality training provider that can meet a schools training, consultancy and support needs; taking them through the development, implementation and delivery of restorative practices. We provide bespoke training to all areas of education and will support any school wishing to implement a restorative approach to behavioural management.  We specialise in introductory workshops, twilight training or 3 day restorative justice conference training and a 5 day train the trainer programme.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Marian Liebmann & Associates

Dr Marian Liebmann has worked at a day centre for ex-offenders, with Victim Support and in the Probation Service. She was director of Mediation UK for four years and projects adviser for three years, working on restorative justice issues. Since 1998 she has worked freelance as a consultant and trainer, with youth offending teams, mediation services and prisons in the UK. Marian has also undertaken work in several African and East European countries, including training 180 victim-offender mediators in Serbia and Montenegro.

In 2005 Marian received a special merit award of the Longford Prize for her pioneering work in art therapy, restorative justice and mediation. She has written and edited ten books including Restorative Justice: How It Works. In July 2010 she received her PhD at Bristol University.

Recent restorative justice work has included training residents on a housing estate in South Bristol, research on domestic vioence and restorative justice in Cardiff Prison and three presentations at the UN Crime Congress Ancillary Programme in Brazil, April 2010

Courses can be tailor-made to clients’ requirements and include: victim-offender mediation, restorative conferencing, restorative justice in prisons, role play practice, community mediation skills, conflict resolution, art and conflict, art and anger management, art-based learning.  

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Unite

UNITE is a not-for-profit organisation offering a range of conflict resolution and training services.  We have over 10 years experience in restorative justice initiatives, including victim/offender mediation (the mediators facilitating either a direct, face-to-face, meeting, or indirect contact between the victim and the offender), family group conferencing.  

UNITE draws on its considerable experience as a training provider in the private, public and voluntary sectors to provide high quality training packages, which can be tailored to your requirements.  Our courses include "Victim/Offender Mediation Skills" and "What about the Victim", a one-day course designed to raise awareness of the needs of victims within the criminal justice system, which is suitable for public and voluntary sector organisations working with victims of crime.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

ProActive ReSolutions

ProActive ReSolutions Inc 42 Brooks St London W1K 5DB United Kingdom Tel: 0203 178 2525 (London) + 61 2 9221 0446 (international) Fax: 0203 178 2526 (London) + 61 2 9221 0702 (international) Email Website Also in Australia, Canada and the USA

ProActive ReSolutions is the world leader in quality RJ Conference Training and Facilitation, delivering the Facilitator Training and Quality Assurance for the largest RJ research project ever undertaken in the UK. That research demonstrates that for every £1 you invest in RJ Conferencing, you save a further £9.

If you’re responsible for reducing the frequency of re-offending, for increasing victim satisfaction and for using your people and scarce resources efficiently and effectively, ProActive ReSolutions will provide you with the necessary RJ expertise and experience.

ProActive’s workplace programmes deliver the skills and courage needed to sustain respectful relationships at work, by focusing on the written and unwritten rules, the necessity of participating fully in our teams and the importance of challenging disrespectful behaviour.

And wherever violence threatens, ProActive leads the world in violence risk assessment and management.

Our expertise, evidence-based approach and ongoing support, ensures your RJ programme is sustainable, cost effective and able to expand.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Janet Clark

Working restoratively in schools for the past ten years, Janet was first involved in the RJ in Schools Project, funded by the YJB as the Schools Coordinator, and later as the Project Manager for the award winning RAiS Project in the Bristol Schools.  Janet delivers Training, Consultancy and Facilitation in a wide variety of settings, including Youth Offending Services, Educational Support Services, Pupil referral Units, Special Schools, Community Mediation,  Secondary and Primary mainstream schools.  

Janet delivers, Awareness events, Introductory days, Conferencing Skills, Refresher courses and workshops to support the embedding of practice, as well as ongoing support.  Janet has worked with a number of local authorities and more recently involved in the pilot for the Restorative Practice Diploma Assessor Training.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Restoractive

Restoractive provides a successful range of Family Group Conferences, Restorative Justice Conferences and Restorative Interventions. Our customers include Schools, Local Authorities, Youth Justice Organisations and organisations working with children and families throughout the UK. 

“OUR COMMITMENT and ethos has ensured that families receive a dignified and professional service”.

Our Director is a well respected and very experienced FGC/RJ manager with many years experience in delivering Family Group Conferences and Restorative Interventions and Conferences as well as setting up new projects. Our Company provides a network of highly qualified and externally accredited Family Group Conference and Restorative Justice Co-Ordinators.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Maidstone Mediation Service

Maidstone Mediation is a registered charity and voluntary organization which has been delivering training and services for conflict resolution and restorative justice in Kent since 1990. Key partners are Kent Police, Kent YOS, Kent Probation, the Sheppey Cluster of prisons, Medway Mediation, West Kent Mediation and Canterbury Mediation

Our training has equipped  mediators to facilitate Restorative Justice at all levels of seriousness of offence. 

We offer training in:

Conflict resolution for neighbourhood problems

Conflict resolution for parents and teenagers

Restorative Justice  levels 1-3

Peer mediation for schools

Anger management  

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

West Kent Mediation

West Kent Mediation (WKM) has been working to resolve disputes in West Kent for over 15 years.  We deliver restorative practices/mediation in community, neighbourhood, schools, the workplace, between parents and teenagers, with victims and offenders and all those affected by a crime. 

WKM has recently been awarded the Pqasso Quality Mark.

Bev Giannoni is our Restorative Justice Manager who is experienced in victim offender mediation for both low level and serious crimes.  She is a qualified trainer of basic mediation skills, victim offender mediation and restorative conferencing.  Restorative Conferencing requires two facilitators.  Bev works alongside Sue Holmes from Medway Mediation with whom we have a close working relationship delivering training to volunteers for mediation services and for the Kent Youth Offending Service.  We also work closely with Canterbury and District Mediation Service and Maidstone Mediation Service and, together, we deliver high quality training and mediation throughout Kent.

Bev is also a qualified Assessor for the new Diploma in Restorative Practices and has assisted candidates achieve the award.

She has recently been selected as one of twenty people nationally to apply for and to be accepted for an accreditation with the RJC through their passport scheme.

Please contact Bev directly at our office on 01322 615774 to discuss any training issues or if you are interested in learning more about the Diploma in Restorative Practices.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Communities Empowerment Network

London Tel: 07846 474028 Email Website

The Communities Empowerment Network (CEN) offers Restorative Justice (RJ) seminars, workshops and full conference training to organisations across the UK and Internationally. The CEN provide high quality provision that achieves value for money and delivers to 'The RJ Principles', 'The Best Practice Guidance' and 'The National Occupational Standards' whilst ensuring the most competitive prices you will find are offered. They do this as they want high quality restorative approaches being used in communities, that don't cost the earth to achieve and make a tangible, practical and measurable difference.

The CEN can deliver training at venues organised by commissioners. Alternatively, you may want to join one of their 2 day RJ awareness courses or 4 day RJ Facilitator's courses in London. To find out more about what's involved in our facilitator courses, please click here.

To find out more send an e-mail to Deuan German who will discuss your needs and answer your enquiries alternatively contact him on 020 7733 0297.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Kent Safe Schools Project Salus

Project Salus delivers training to those who work with children and young people including schools, care homes and other educational settings. We run bespoke inset training for schools - whole day, half day or twilight sessions. We also run individual workshops for foster carers, mid-day meal supervisors, governors and parents to name but a few. We also deliver peer mediation training to support whole school implementation of restorative approaches. We run a three day restorative approaches training programme that covers a range of restorative practices including check in/check out circles and formal conferencing.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

MIRRA

Julie Wolstenholme Director

Tel: 07910 441 049

Email ¦ Website

Mediation and Restorative Approaches: Inclusive responses to conflict

Julie Wolstenholme is an established and experienced consultant and trainer who has spent many years working with educators to develop and sustain whole school approaches to relationship building, repairing harm and resolving conflict.   She has been a practicing mediator and restorative facilitator for several years in community settings, the Youth Justice System and in schools and was instrumental in establishing one of the UK’s first Home/School Mediation services.

MIRRA offers in house training and support for Primary and Secondary schools wishing to develop and/or expand restorative approaches and can offer a mediation and restorative conference facilitation service to schools and community organisations. 

“Brilliant course! Excellent opportunity to share and learn in a very warm atmosphere”

Teacher, St Matthews RC High School, Restorative Approaches training course 2008

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

CALM

CALM (Confidential and Local Mediation) is a London based charity, formed in 1995. We specialise in conflict resolution and Restorative Justice. We train volunteers in Restorative Justice, to deliver casework in the community and professionals such as Probation Officers, to raise awareness within the criminal justice system. All CALM's training is accredited by OCNLR (Open College Network London Region), a nationally recognised examining body.

We work with schools, adults in prisons and victims across London to deliver Restorative Justice in minor incidents or with serious offences.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Devon and Cornwall Police

Devon and Cornwall Constabulary have been committed to using Restorative Practices in Policing since 2004 when we first embarked on training our local Neighbourhood Beat Managers.  Since then the spread of Restorative Practice has been slow and steady with now over 2500 staff trained in RJ Awareness.

Restorative Practice is now used actively by officers and staff within Neighbourhood Teams, on ‘Response’, within other specialist departments and within our own HR Practices.Whilst most of our training is delivered ‘internally’, within Force, we have developed a significant skills base in the use of Restorative Justice in a variety of settings.

We have delivered training with and to a number of local partners including Education, Social Services, Local Fire and Rescue, Local Authority, Anti-social Behaviour Officers, Integrated Offender Management Teams, local Young Offenders Institute, Registered Social Landlords etc.

We deliver RJ Awareness Sessions (up to 1 day in length), RJ  onferencing Training (3-5 days), RJ Trainers Training (5-8 days) and other bespoke courses for local needs.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Urbanitas

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Restorative Approaches

Restorative Approaches is a small training and consultation company.  Our trainers have been working in the field of Restorative Justice as practitioner/trainers for a number of years working within the criminal justice process, youth engagement, restorative policing and RJ training.

We have introduced restorative processes to both the adult and youth criminal justice systems within the police service and as a neighbourhood problem solving tool. We have utilised a restorative approach to complaints and grievances, encouraged restorative practice within Safer School Partnerships and supported whole school approaches. We provide bespoke training packages that range from simple briefings through to full conference training and train the trainer packages. 

We also work closely with another training provider www.conflictres.co.uk bringing you individual modules on personal safety and conflict resolution.  This allows us to bring you end to end training on pre-conflict prevention, strategies to resolve conflict real time and restorative approaches post conflict.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Walker Research and Training Limited

Formed in 2001; our strength lies in our experience of strategic planning; the scope and flexibility of our training courses; the training and practitioner experience of our trainers and our inclusive methods of training delivery.

We developed the first bespoke training course for those working with looked after children and delivered that to Hertfordshire (Subject of published research B. Littlechild). We have written and trained courses nationally and internationally for over ten years for a wide range of organizations and disciplines including Government Departments, Criminal Justice Agencies, Local Authorities, Voluntary and Community Groups.

We have trained and practiced  in Criminal; Welfare; Community and Workplace situations  from the most serious to minor incidents including human resource and  community problem solving; Our flexible approach and vast experience meets individual needs of clients and offers unique approaches to developing internal training capacity for organizations.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Restorative Solutions cic

11 Carlton Avenue, Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire PR6 7QG Tel: 07505 128568 Email Website

Restorative Solutions is a not for profit Community Interest Company (CIC) committed to promoting restorative practice through facilitation, consultancy and by training others to use and develop restorative skills.

We are working in partnership with a number of agencies, organizations and charities in order to develop a capacity to deliver restorative interventions. Our mission is to promote the use of restorative approaches as a practical tool kit for any organization that deals with harm or conflict.

We have been operating over a number of years providing training and technical assistance to police and probation services, youth offending teams, custodial institutions, social housing providers and schools.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Dialogue Exchange Ltd

Julia’s career spans twenty-six years in social services and education. For the past eight years, as Head of Inclusion in an inner city comprehensive school, she managed a team of learning and behaviour mentors. She also facilitated multi-agency support for the most vulnerable children, managing the restorative initiative, 'Impact’.

Julia led on embedding restorative justice across whole school systems in her school.  This built on work managing the Anti-Bullying team and Peer Mentors including creation of the Hackney wide anti-bullying resource.

Julia’s Phd in Restorative Practices will be completed this year. Her interests are in the theoretical underpinning of restorative values and its possibilities as a dialogical intervention based on a philosophy of care to address the needs of the most disengaged and vulnerable children.

Training Offered

School INSET (Primary and Secondary)

Training for LSAs and non-teaching staff

Training for school councils/peer listeners

School Police Liaison Officers

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

NetCare

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NetCare have been providing Training, consultancy and practice in Restorative Approaches and Family Group Conference for 20 years. Jim McGrath has been working with FGC and restorative approaches in schools since 1992 when he was a social worker for Barnardos. As a mediator in Northern Ireland he has been working in post conflict communities, using community conflict resolution and restorative approaches to promote the transition from violence to peace for the past 10 years.

NetCare was founded in 2000 and has worked with Government departments, statutory, voluntary and community groups throughout the UK and Ireland.   We have introduced restorative strategies into families, schools, neighbourhood communities, local policing and workplace.

Our training has been recognised as best practice by Open College Network and we provide both accredited and non accredited training in FGC and Restorative Practices. In the latter part of 2011 NetCare completed a pilot with parents on their restorative approaches – the Restorative Parenting Programme is the first in the UK to assist parents deal effectively and restoratively in every day dealings with conflict.  

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

West Sussex Youth Offending Service

West Sussex Youth Offending Service Youth Office Centenary House Durrington Lane Worthing BN13 2QB Tel: 01903 839839

The West Sussex Youth Offending Service offers Restorative training, specialising in different educational settings such as schools, PRU’s & colleges. We can also provide tailored training for children’s residential care home staff, youth workers and police staff.

The training focuses on creating a restorative culture within the environment that you work, establishing a ‘whole organisational’ approach. This is accomplished through simple restorative techniques using language and a specific line of questioning. The training then advances to a more formal setting of conferencing.

Training  is also available for the young people who are interested in becoming peer mentors, peer mediators or buddy’s.

Please call or e-mail for more information

Kate.balmforth@westsussex.gov.uk or 07809 491 486

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

NPM Educational Limited

Nigel Manning is an experienced Senior Leader with a record of success in a range of institutions and a wide range of experience that encompasses all areas of educational management but with a specialism in improving behaviour and significant experience in Restorative Practices.

Nigel was involved from the outset in the award winning Restorative Approaches in Schools project in Bristol. As a Restorative Practice facilitator he has conducted many conferences and as a qualified trainer has worked with staff groups in a variety of schools to embed restorative approaches. Nigel has recently returned from training school Principals and counsellors in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Nigel will provide a cost-effective service which will include consultation, assessment of need, the provision of a bespoke training programme and on-going support. His approach is based on over thirty-years experience of secondary schools and the constraints under which they work including budgetary pressures.

NPM Educational Limited

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

CIC

Catalyst In Communities 61 Spencer Road London E17 4BD Tel: 07961 301 250 Email Website

We promote restorative practice locally and nationally in a holistic way that encourages people to build their own capacity for transformation and change in the domains of justice, education, social care and personal life. Our work is based on knowledge, experience and understanding of community.

Restorative Approaches foster relationships, challenge inequality and create innovative learning experiences to meet the needs of disadvantaged individuals and groups in many contexts. (Criminal Justice, Schools, Colleges, Social Care Systems).

We deliver RJ solutions based on Restorative Practice.

We typically work with:

Offenders • Victims • Families • Schools • Young People • Community Groups • Businesses

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Transforming Conflict - the National Centre for Restorative Approaches in Youth Settings

Transforming Conflict was one of the very first  providers of training and consultancy in the UK in the field of restorative approaches in schools, residential care and other youth settings. The organisation was founded in 1994 by Dr Belinda Hopkins, a well-respected pioneer who developed the concept of a  restorative school in her book Just Schools (JKP 2004). Her innovative new book The Restorative Classroom (Optimus 2011) takes the ideas even further – linking the teaching and learning of academic subjects with the way we teach pro-social behaviour. Belinda’s passion for implementing institution-wide restorative approaches applies to residential care settings (Just Care (JKP  2009)), as well as Youth Offending Services and other environments where adults live or work with young people. Her doctoral research (2000 – 2006) was focussed on implementing such approaches in schools and will soon be published as Just Change (in press).

Belinda has a highly committed, experienced team of associate trainers who work with her to develop the most in-depth courses and implementation packages available. These courses can be literally life-changing – helping people to reflect on how they interact with others on a daily basis and  how they manage their own personal and professional conflicts and challenges with family, friends and colleagues as well as clients. From this highly generic universal base the courses develop facilitation skills for mediation, conferencing, circle process and family group conferencing, depending on your needs.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

KW Consultancy & Training Ltd

KW Consultancy & Training Ltd. has been operating as an independent provider of consultancy and training in restorative processes since 2000.  The company provides high quality training throughout the UK to Youth Offending Teams, Secure Training Centres, community safety personnel, police services, educationalists and others developing restorative processes.  

The range of training provided includes all 5 levels of training outlined in the Restorative Justice Council’s Code of Practice for Trainers.  Ken Webster, the company’s managing director, has worked with Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA to encourage large organisations to effect organisational change by using restorative processes.  Consultancy and training has been provided for the highly regarded C4RJ community-based programme in Concord, Massachusetts, USA.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

KSA Training and Consultancy Ltd

Karen Hawkins, 23 Chapel Lane, Woodmancote, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL52 9HT

Tel: 07929 638555                                                                    Email                                                                                              Website

KSA is an organisation with many years experience of both the practical application of restorative justice and the training of organisations and practitioners wanting to adopt the approach.

We offer a range of bespoke courses in the formal restorative justice conferencing and in restorative approaches. With experience of training Youth Offending Teams, police forces, educational and residential establishments, secure units and prevention services we are very well placed to offer you the expertise you need to make restorative justice a practical way of working.

In addition to the engaging and interactive training we provide, we offer individual assessment of the course participants with written feedback documents, in order that as an organisation you are able to work to the strengths of your staff group.

For more information please do not hesitate to contact our Director of Training, Karen Hawkins on 07929 638555 or visit our website www.ksaconsultancy.co.uk

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Restorative Justice Foundation

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Gwen Spall

Gwen is a trained, experienced and accredited integrative counsellor. Having encountered restorative approaches first hand during 2007 it was immediately apparent to her that the skill sets and methodology required were highly complementary. 

She has worked restoratively in a Norfolk secondary school since 2005 and continues to practise there. In her role as Restorative Approaches Coordinator for Norfolk County Council she is currently developing training for Human Resources departments to work restoratively in managing workplace behaviours. She is also working with town and parish councillors and plans to support other partners within Norfolk County Council.  Her aim is to work very closely with organisations in order to develop relevant material. Gwen has also begun to get involved with restorative justice work in prison.

Gwen is co-author of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings published by Learning Matters where she reflects on the specific benefits of restorative approaches in an educational setting.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

HMPYOI Werrington

Dave Porter   

Tel: 01782 463300 or 01782 63388                                              Email

Dave Porter is the lead restorative justice trainer at HM YOI Werrington. Dave has been employed by HM Prison Service for 20 years and is presently employed at Werrington as a case manager within the resettlement department.

Dave is currently case manager to twenty young people where his primary role is to ensure their care and progression whilst at Werrington. He also has lead responsibility for Education and Employment as the Education and Employment Coordinator. This enables him to work closely with partner agencies to provide education and employment opportunities for young people whilst at Werrington and on their release.

Werrington holds 160 15 to 18 year old juvenile offenders. We are very keen to progress restorative justice at Werrington as part of our offender management programme so they can understand the impact of their crimes from the victims' point of view.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Safer and Stronger Communities Partnership, North East Lincolnshire

Marcus Czarnecki

Direct Line: 01472 324976  

Mobile: 07917 892838

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The Safer and Stronger Communities Partnership restorative training is carried out by Marcus Czarnecki, who is a conflict transformation specialist and a qualified restorative trainer over the spectrum of restorative practices.

Having trained teams of peer mediators in schools he currently trains restorative practitioners across all sectors and in all organisational settings from education providers to Justice agencies. Bespoke training can be offers to police, probation officers, educational psychologists, equalities staff, youth and social workers, victim support, HR teams and managers.

Marcus was mentored by Mike Ledwidge of the Restorative Justice Training Company and shares the same ethos and committment to restorative interventions being for the benefit of all. He was also trained by IIRP and is currently studying restorative justice at Masters level at Hull University.

As a restorative practitioner Marcus specialises in transforming complex structural injustice through restorative dialogues and also practices restoratively in large scale community and organisational conflict settings.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

The Centre for Restorative Approaches in Durham County Council

The Centre for Restorative Approaches in Durham County Council is based in the Children and Young People's Services within the County Council. Restorative approaches were introduced to residential children's homes in Durham in 2005. All staff working in this service have been trained to restorative practice. A Restorative Approaches Training Team has been formed from skills practitioners who deliver training across the organisation and beyond.

The Centre for Restorative Approaches in County Durham is involved in multi-agency projects with Children and Young People's Services, Schools and the Police. Our areas of practice include:

Looked after children

Education

Policing (focus on work with young people)

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Restorative Justice and Education Services

Writing Wrongs is a practical, multi-media toolkit that enables young people to investigate the causes and consequences of wrongdoing, using restorative approaches. There are two separate Writing Wrongs programmes, one for use in Schools and one for Youth Justice Organisations (Youth Offending Teams, the Secure Estate, Young People’s Service and Probation). Evaluation of the Writing Wrongs programme shows that 99.8% of students feel they are quite well/very well equipped to use restorative approaches in conflict situations in school, 85.5% feel they are quite well/very well equipped to use restorative approaches in conflict situations outside school and 57% of students feel they have acquired a new skill through the Writing Wrongs programme. Please contact us for further information, or visit the website:  www.writing-wrongs.org

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

HMP Lowdham Grange

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

The Restorative Justice Training Company

‘The Restorative Justice Training Company’ is a small independent group of internationally respected RJ trainers, who are not just skilled practitioners, but are also all highly qualified and experienced teachers. Our training courses are not just ‘packages’, but offer a holistic understanding of restorative processes.

Participants not only develop the skills and confidence to deliver safe and effective restorative interventions, but they also internalize the restorative ethos, with an understanding of it’s underlying principles, developing the ability to synthesize suitable restorative solutions across a wide range of conflict and harm situations.

We pride ourselves in delivering excellent value for money, (see website) as we believe delivering high quality RJ training is an investment in all of our futures. We are proud to be involved in something so important. We specialize in delivering the full Restorative Facilitator's course, and we believe anyone dealing with such important processes should be fully trained.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Halton Borough Council

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Contact2Contact Consultants Ltd

2 Llest Cottages, Main Road, Llantwit Fardre, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, CF38 2HF

Tel: 01443 205607

Mob: 0794 9046 746 

Email 

Website

Contact-2-Contact is a specialised training and Consultation Company delivering a high quality range of bespoke training programmes for restorative practices and facilitator training to organisations in the public and private sectors.

We specialise in:  Community and Family Group Conferencing, Sentencing Circles, Peer Court Implementation, Victim Inclusion and Community Engagement.

We have an experienced training and facilitator team with a background from the Ministry of Justice, Criminal and Social Justice Sectors and Civil Justice Sectors.  The team has worked in restorative practices throughout the UK, Europe and North America facilitating over 700 restorative conferences in the past 20 years. 

The Company offers awareness events and introductory, level one and two restorative training.  Our 3 day courses are tailored to enable trained facilitators to use restorative approaches in their organisations to establish a sustained restorative culture.

Our training programmes are aimed at Schools, Police, Prison/Custodial establishments, Housing, Youth and Children Service, Mental Health Services, Communities and Businesses.

Diolch i chi am eich diddordeb. Cysylltwch â ni am ragor o wybodaeth

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Catch 22 East Anglia Community Mediation Service

Who are we?
Catch22 is a national charity that helps young people out.  We work with young people and their families who find themselves in difficult situations. We work with families and communities wherever and whenever young people need us most; in schools, on the streets, in the home, at community centres, shopping centres, in police stations and in custody.  And we do this in over 150 communities, directly supporting over 30,000 young people a year. As young people become more positive, productive and independent, the whole community benefits.

Projects in East Anglia
Catch22 in Suffolk manages a number of projects which use restorative approaches to reducing conflict. We can offer mediation and OCN Level 2 accredited training in schools, healthy relationships, children's homes, families, neighbour disputes, community disputes, workplace, and victim/offender.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Rane Training

Rane Training offers bespoke facilitated courses in the principles and practice of working restoratively with people in conflict. Each course is tailored to the needs and circumstances of the group, and would cover the relevant theory and background to restorative practice, ensuring participants have a full understanding of its values and principles. It would then go on to gradually build on the basic skills of the participants which are necessary to work restoratively, finally fine tuning the particular skils and competences for the context in which they would be managing restorative processes.

Rane Training's lead trainer has a background in a variety of contexts, from youth justice to prisons, the workplace and schools, coupled with extensive qualifications in restorative justice and mediation and a wealth of experience in restorative practice, training and faciliatation.

Rane training works nationally, offering the highest quality tailor-made training to meet the needs of your organisation.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Kiernan Consultancy

Henry Kiernan 27 Rylstone Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 7HG Tel:: 01323721991 Mob: 07970467201 Email

Partner in Restorative Training Foundation. An experienced restorative justice facilitator and trainer since 2002, working in primary and secondary schools, and organisations across the South of England, also run workshops for senior staff groups from several LA’s. Facilitate regularly in schools and for the LA and train teams to deliver restorative practices.  

Able to offer a wide range  of restorative focused programmes from four days for a group of 8-12 people, which enables  full conference facilitation , to  introductory and awareness raising sessions of half to full day for considerably larger groups.

Programmes can be tailored to the specific focus group, and include developing interventions to meet challenging young people involving restorative  and solution focus approaches. Groups can come from a range of backgrounds, including the voluntary sector, and not necessarily from the same organisation. A successful addition has been one day programmes for peer restorative mediation for young people. Henry is also a trained assessor for Qualifications and Credit Framework qualifications.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Remedi - Victim Offender Mediation

Remedi (restorative justice and mediation intiatives) is a voluntary sector organisation with charitable status. Remedi has been a restorative services provider across the youth and adult criminal justice systems, in schools, in the 'looked after' arena and in a community setting since 1996.

Remedi is able to provide bespoke training packages for all levels of restorative practice in regard to:

Youth and adult offending

Custodial establishments

Policing

Schools

Housing

We also have an extensive mentoring portfolio.

Remedi utilise their wealth of experience as practitioners in regard to all training provision offering interactive and practical input. They are also available for post training support and advice.

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Debbie Cooper Associates

Debbie Cooper Associates offers high quality, relevant and up to date training and consultancy within Youth Offending Services, Probation, Police, Schools, Specialist Education Providers, Looked After Systems, Housing and the workplace.  All training focuses upon enabling and creating a sustainable restorative culture.

Courses include introductory workshops, 3 and 5 day restorative justice conference training and a 5 day train the trainer programme. All training is delivered to meet the specific needs of a client in line with Restorative Justice 2010 National Occupational Standards.

Debbie Cooper is a qualified trainer and has worked within Public Sector and Criminal Justice for 23 years.  After working in fraud within Local Authorities she became a Police Officer with Northumbria Police then moved onto managing Youth Offending Service Services within the North East of England.  She then worked as a Regional Youth Justice Board Senior Performance Advisor.  Debbie has led on Restorative Justice and played an integral part in developing local and national policy.

Debbie has recently been commissioned to re-write the Youth Justice Board Panel Matters Training Guide and to write a three day Restorative Justice Facilitators Coure for national roll out in 2012.

Please call or e-mail for more information

debbie@debbiecooperassociates.com or 07793 754442.

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

International Institute for Restorative Practices UK & Ireland

Les Davey, Director

IIRP UK & Ireland

3a Crown Street, Millom, Cumbria LA18 4AG 

Tel: 01229 777799 

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IIRP UK & Ireland is an affiliate of the International Institute for Restorative Practices. IIRP as the leading international training organisation in the field of restorative practices), offers a wide range of services in all aspects of Restorative Practices. With the longest UK and Irish pedigree in the field, IIRP UK & Ireland offers a high standard of training and consultancy on all aspects of implementation and delivery of Restorative Justice Conferencing and Practices.

IIRP UK & Ireland is a signatory to the Restorative Justice Council’s (RJC) ‘Voluntary Code of Practice for Trainers and Training Organisations of Restorative Justice Facilitator Training’. Visit our website for fuller details at: www.iirp.org/uk.

IIRP UK & Ireland includes; Real Justice, Good Company, Family Power, ‘Safer Saner Schools’ and our charity ‘Buxmont Academy’

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Medway Mediation

Medway Mediation, a Community Mediation Service was established in 1995.  Services provided across Medway and North Kent include Neighbour Mediation, Parent/Teen Mediation, Peer Mediation, Mentoring, Homelessness Mediation, Family Group Conferencing, Restorative Conferencing in the Criminal Justice and Education arenas,  Victim/Offender Mediation, and Anger Management Coaching.

Medway Mediation’s training staff are all skilled and experienced in their respective disciplines and offer training in: Restorative Conferencing, Victim/Offender Mediation,  Mediation Skills, Peer Mediation, Behavioural Learning Mentoring,  and Anger Management Coach Training

Our lead Restorative justice trainers include Sue Holmes (Medway Mediation CEO and a trainer with KW Consultancy and Training) and Bev Giannoni (Restorative Justice Manager at West Kent Mediation).  Both are experienced Victim/Offender Mediators for serious crimes and currently facilitate Restorative meetings   between young offenders and their victims, at Restorative  clinics, which are held at Police Stations in West Kent, North Kent and Medway every week.

In addition to working closely with Kent Police, Medway Mediation is working in partnership with Canterbury and District Mediation Service, Maidstone Mediation Service and West Kent Mediation Service to deliver Restorative Justice Conferencing training to Kent and Medway YOS.

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Circles Training & Consultancy Ltd

Tel: 07876 212979

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Circles Training and Conulstancy Limited was founded in 2007 by Sharon Inglis, a restorative practitioner with her roots in family and community partnerships.  With over 20 years of expereince of working with children, young people and their families, Sharon was inspired by restorative practices whist managing a family group conference project in West Berkshire. With the support of managers and grass roots practitioners,  a range of practices developed within the local authority including, Family Group Conferences, Commiunity Conferences, Circles to deal with both public complaints and internal grievances.  In 2007 Sharon left West Berkshire and set up Circles, to support businesses, both private and public, that wish to implement sustainable restorative practices within thier organisations.

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• Criminal Justice
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• Workplace

Trrrio Training and Consultancy

Trrrio Training and Consultancy LLP is an organisation who provides training courses in the three fundamental features of restorative practices - Restore, Repair and Reconnect, and whose team of skilled trainers have each gained more than ten years' restorative experience. Each of them is still actively involved in the process today with their experience crossing boundaries that include criminal justice arena (both adult and young people), care homes (for young people), schools and organisations dealing with complaints, grievances or management issues for staff.

Our training, which is recognised by the leading international restorative training organisation, IIRP UK, is an accredited course and is delivered to schools, police, probation, prisons, care homes, housing, YOS staff and private companies wanting a more effective way of handling disputes.

Trrrio can offer training, consultancy and facilitation to your organisation drawing on its wealth of expertise in the restorative field, to suit your individual need and requirements.

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Kim Smith & Associates

Kim Smith has been at the cutting edge of restorative practices in the UK since 1998. A former police officer, he was a lead facilitator in the research project conducted on behalf of the Ministry of Justice and facilitated (among many others) the conference between Peter Woolf and Will Riley.

His work with Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies has raised the former organisation to be amongst the best in the UK for the use of restorative practices and has received much critical acclaim.  Similarly his work with Schools, Council Authority run care homes, the NHS, Probation and others has also attracted excellent feedback from trainees, service providers and customers alike.

Kim is committed to high professional standards in the use of all restorative practices and actively promotes these in all aspects of his work. He is currently undertaking the necessary course to become an assessor for the Level 4 Diploma in Restorative Practice.

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

The Oswaldtwistle School

Mark Bocker (Headteacher) was trained whilst teaching in Beechcroft EBD Residential Special School in London, 1991, in the use of reparation and mediation which derived from the original work of Mediation UK. Mark has subsequently applied restorative approaches throughout his teaching career and trained many colleagues in restorative practices. Mark currently provides training, advice and support in restorative justice, restorative meetings, conferences and practices to mainstream and special schools across East Lancashire.

Vicky Longton (Outreach Lead) and Julie Walker (Pupil Support Officer) are Lancashire County Council Facilitators in Restorative Conferences and can also provide training at practitioner level. Their training was delivered by Helen Flanagan (Restorative Approaches Consultancy).

The Oswaldtwistle School ascribes to best practice as set out by Lancashire County Council and the RJC Voluntary Code of Practice for Trainers & Training Organisations. Most of our work is carried out in schools but we will work with any organisation supporting our vulnerable students including Children's Social Care, YPS, YOT, Residential Homes and many more!.... ............

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Hull Centre for Restorative Practices

Pauline Winn Hull Centre for Restorative Practice Email Website

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Thorsborne and Associates

Tel: 07740 948053

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Thorsborne and Associates

…strengthening connections between people: putting relationships at the heart of your organisation’s success…

Who are we?

Thorsborne and Associates is an international consultancy providing outstanding restorative services to schools, communities and workplaces.  The UK team are highly experienced trainers/facilitators - all RJC-accredited practitioners - with current, extensive knowledge of schools, local authorities and voluntary/community sectors.  The international work of our parent company and our own links with current UK research mean we are at the cutting edge of developments in restorative practice.

How do we work?

We work collaboratively with organisations to identify and address needs within existing aims and priorities.  We develop high trust, positive relationships, through transparent processes underpinned by our core values of integrity, reliability and exceptional service delivery.

What do we offer?

We offer tailored professional development, support and restorative conference facilitation.

We are experienced trainers with a deep knowledge of learning who pride ourselves on delivering high quality, engaging and thought-provoking sessions.   These sessions range from introductory briefings to full restorative conference facilitator training (three days) that cover philosophy, theory and practice.

We have direct knowledge and experience of the restorative change process, and of successfully coaching others leading change.  We offer intelligent, well-grounded support to organisations wishing to introduce, implement or embed restorative practice.

We have a successful track record in working restoratively to resolve a wide range of conflict in schools and workplaces.  We offer a conference facilitation service as well as support in this area to trained practitioners.

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strakerRPsolutions

Chris was a teacher for thirty years, including three years as the English adviser for Hull City Council. He was Head Teacher at Endeavour High School for five years, balancing his time between school and the Hull Centre for Restorative Practice, (which he co-founded with Estelle Macdonald, Head Teacher of Collingwood primary school). 

He left Endeavour High School in December 2010, to take up a full time post as one of the leads of the Hull Centre for Restorative Practice. He trains and offers consultancy to all agencies working with young people, families and communities  - in Hull and across the UK.

In January 2012 he started to work independently of Hull Centre for Restorative Practice as a trainer and practitioner. Presently, he is engaged in working with schools and local authorities outside of Hull to develop their capacity to deliver restorative practice across their services. He is developing work which allies focused strategic and operational improvement planning to restorative practice regardless of setting.

He has also drawn on his experience as a leader, coupled to his work in restorative practice over the last five years, to develop training in restorative approaches to leadership within schools and children’s services.

Finally, he  has been a speaker at national conferences across the UK; and internationally in the USA, Canada and Hungary. 

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

BHCohaviour

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Somerset Youth Offending Team

Somerset Youth Offending Team was involved in the initial Youth Justice Board pilots relating to the introduction of restorative working into schools and is committed to the wider development of restorative justice. Over the last ten years it has provided training to youth justice staff and managers, police and police trainers, residential support workers, home based carers, foster parents, children's social care managers and school staff at all levels including trainers.

The YOT was central to the process of devising training for the introduction of the youth restorative disposal within its area.

Somerset YOT was one of the first to adopt the requirement for members of youth offender panels to be trained as restorative facilitators.

Skills based training is delivered by experienced practitioners and educators and is available in standardised formats as well as bespoke provision. Over the years the team has adopted a multi-faceted approach to the preparation and assessment of both practitioners and trainers.

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

HYPHEN GROUP (The)

8 Risely Avenue,
Tottenham,
London. N17 7ER

Laris Bucknor-Fisher - 07958 585 790
Simon Bucknor - 07533 503370
Admin - 01992 610 234

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Our ‘Hyphen’ stands for...

Providing projects and services to meet the needs and improve the life chances and emotional wellbeing of children and young people who are disadvantaged, marginalised, vulnerable and or failing to realise their full potential.

The Hyphen Group offers a range of programmes and services directly to young people and their families as well as individuals and organisations in the care sector including Life Coaching, NLP Guidance / Therapy Sessions and The Restorative Approach Training & Consultancy.

• Schools
• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Beyond Conflict Ltd

Beyond Conflict Ltd is a values based company specialising in restorative approaches to handling offending, wrongdoing, and conflict resolution in the voluntary, public, educational, and private sectors. In a sensitive, thorough and collaborative way we address the impact of a wide range of behaviour on victims, offenders and their communities. Our work in schools and workplaces supports individuals and teams to develop the skills and confidence to handle conflict constructively and to assure more sustainable outcomes built on a foundation of mutual respect and understanding.

We always work with you to design the most effective training programme to meet the particular needs of your staff and organisation.

Restorative Conferencing, Victim - Offender mediation, Community and family group conferencing, Peacemaking circles, Mediation and Mediation Training, Coaching and Facilitation.  

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• Criminal Justice
• Community
• Workplace

Resolve Consultants Ltd

24 Blairderry Road London SW2 4SB Tel: 07870249946 Website

Resolve Consultants Limited (RCL), supports organisations and practitoners to develop their restortative practice to the benefit of their communities. The company offers a range of training and evaluation services to met clients needs to help them learn and develop their restorative prctice.

RCL was created by Luke Roberts, who has the unique experience of being a reseacher, pracitioner and traininer in restorative appraoches.  At the heart of all our training is to deliver engaging and creative experiences where where participants leave feeling confident to use their skills to meet the challeges of their working environment.

We offer training on restorative approaches, from initial interview to restorative conferencing. In addition, to support the growing demand for in-house trainers we also have a training for trainer course.    

RCL also helps organisations with designing a restorative service from implmentation and process mapping,  through to evaluation and communication stratgies to create sustainabity in organisations.

Restorative Fields:Crimnal Justice (Police, Youth Offending Teams, Anti-social behaviour), Children and Young People, Schools and colleges, Pupil Referral Units, Training for trainers.

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• Criminal Justice
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