Introduction to Restorative Practice 24/25

Target Group

This training is targeted at:

• Professionals in direct contact with children who undertake or contribute to risk assessments and multi-agency meetings including social workers, family support workers, foster carers, health professionals, schools, police and others who work with children at risk of abuse, neglect and exploitation who work for the London Borough of Sutton. 

Competency level: 

• Group Level 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominantly working with children) or above (including strategic leads), and NHS Inter-Collegiate Standards 2 and above for health professionals.

Aims

The aims of this sessions are: 

• To provide awareness about the LBS Children’s Services Social Works newly adopted practice model. It covers the approach to working with families in a restorative way. 
• To provide participants with an overview of the theory and evidence-base of restorative practice and how restorative practice can be implemented in different settings to resolve conflict, restore relationships and repair harm. 
• To provide the skills required to undertake informal restorative processes, such as restorative conversations.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course,  participants will have:

• An improved knowledge of the theory and evidence-base of restorative practice and how restorative practice can be implemented in different settings to resolve conflict, restore relationships and repair harm
• An improved knowledge to equip attendees with a general understanding about the skills required to undertake informal restorative processes, such as restorative conversations
• An increased knowledge of how is it different from restorative justice, the history, theories and evidence-base underlying restorative practice
• An increased knowledge around the principles of restorative practice and RJC Practitioner competency framework, and the different models of restorative practice and settings in which restorative practice can be used
• An increased knowledge around the use of restorative questions and restorative conversations, and using informal restorative processes to resolve conflict, restore relationships and repair harm.

Special Instructions

This course is an introduction for the purpose of awareness and practitioners requiring an understanding of the skills required to conduct formal restorative processes, i.e. restorative conferences, family group conferences, mediation, should undertake the 3 Day Restorative Practice Course.