Restorative Justice: Repairing the Harm
Pivotal provide cutting edge training tailored to your institution. Our trainers come to you. Sample agendas are available on request. We don't 'train and run', we build sustainable practice that works for the long term. All our training can be booked with coaching & mentoring.
Restorative Justice is an approach whose time has come. At Pivotal Education we know that for real change to take place it is as essential to the perpetrators face up to their own responsibilities in a realistic and reflective manner. The Pivotal course will demonstrate that it is possible to help the perpetrators come to terms with the reality of their own behaviour, the reality of the impact of their behaviour on the victims, and, to take practical steps towards rehabilitation.
Our detailed agendas are available on request
Pivotal Education are Members of the Restorative Justice Council
The Pivotal team have accumulated a wide range of experience in working with people who conflict and aggress with others in society. Jointly, they have worked in all forms of mainstream education including Nursery/Primary/Secondary Schools FE Colleges, Academies and Universities. Members of the team have worked in Young Offender residential treatment and assessment institutions, Special Schools, Referral and inclusion units, Residential Boarding Schools and with specialist teams of teachers in a wide range of programmes designed to provide unsuccessful learners with a new start.
Our Restorative Justice training may include:
- Exploration of the concepts of restorative justice and their place within behaviour management procedures.
- How to remove detention or punitive punishment and replace it with reparation.
- Identification of the principles of Restorative Justice and the areas in which it can be applied.
- An exploration of the nature of restorative conferences and the uses to which it can be adapted.
- Why punishment doesn’t work, and why restorative justice is a force to be reckoned with.
- Developing appropriate skills including: 1. Active Listening Skills 2. Understanding the power of interpersonal language 3. Key restorative questions and restorative scripts 4. Translation of legislation and procedures into practical steps for delegates.
- Key player roles within restorative justice.
- Creating an action plan for a restorative justice project.
- Restorative attitude, restorative responses, restorative conferences and restorative cultures.
Pivotal 'Restorative Justice' courses are underpinned by many of the key principles demonstrated throughout our range of courses. Including: the promotion of rights and responsibilities, the maintenance of individual dignity, the development of practical skills, and the importance of positive self-management. All of which will be linked to the delegate’s own work situation.
We provide tailored training programmes aimed at nurseries, primary /secondary/special schools, post 16 education, further education, special educational facilities, specialist academies, care and treatment facilities, young offender organisations and a wide range of other services including those staff working to support the police, social services and the mental health services within the local community.
Pivotal Education’s Training is always in line with the National Training Awards Framework for Learning.
- The course design and content meet the requirements and are fit for purpose
- There is a clear selection and monitoring process for trainers
- A transparent evaluation is in place
- There are post course administration processes in place
- There is a process to review the course