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An Education & Care Sector Conference

In partnership with Transforming Conflict – The National Centre for Restorative Justice in Youth Settings

The 5th Annual Restorative Approaches in Education and
Residential Child Care Conference

Programme

DAY 1: WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS

26th February 2009

Making the case for a restorative approach into your school, unit or residential setting and linking it to your goals for SEAL, ‘Every Child Matters’ and Community Cohesion.

 

The morning programme

 
10.00 Registration and refreshments
 
11.00 Chair’s Welcome and Introduction
Dr Belinda Hopkins, Transforming Conflict
 

Plenary Speakers
The plenary sessions will provide informative accounts of the introduction, implementation and expansion of the use of restorative approaches in different educational and youth settings. Speakers will link their initiatives to their achievements in relation to SEAL and ‘Every Child Matters’. The presentations are delivered by inspiring practitioners and will provide a framework for World Café discussions and conference streams later in the day.

 
 
11.10 Getting Started - the Primary School Experience
Jayne Franklin, Headteacher, Childs Hill Primary School, London Borough of Barnet
 
11.35 Getting Started - the Secondary School Experience
Rory Wilson, Deputy Headteacher, East Barnet School, London Borough of Barnet
 
12.00 Comfort Break
 
12.15 Getting Started - the Special School Experience
Speaker to be confirmed
 
12.40 Care Matters – the Residential Child Care Experience
Dave Ayres, High Peak and North Dales Residential Services,
Derbyshire County Council
 

13.05

Questions and Discussion
 
13.15 Lunch with Exhibition
 
 

The afternoon programme

 
14.00 World Café
Facilitated by Dr Belinda Hopkins
Vanessa Randle, Graphic Recorder

The objective of this session is to share experiences and gain insights into introducing and sustaining emotionally literate responses to relationships, conflict and challenge. The World Café approach will be used to enable deepening understanding through dialogue and challenging questions.

 
16.00 Refreshment Break
 
16.15 Workshops
The World Café approach will be used to enable deepening understanding through dialogue and challenging questions.

Workshop A: Getting Started in Residential Child Care
Gordon Murray, Lead Trainer for Residential Child Care, Transforming Conflict
Dave Ayres, High Peak and North Dales Residential Services, Derbyshire County Council


Workshop B: Getting Started in Schools
Caroline Newton, Restorative Approaches Co-ordinator for Lewisham Council
Anne D’Ouse, Stepps Primary School, North Lanarkshire


Workshop C: Working with Governors and Parents
Phil Bence, Family Group Conference Co-ordinator, Warwickshire
Lindsay Hopkins, Chair of Governors, Swaffield Primary School, Wandsworth
 
17.30 Closing Plenary
Speaker to be confirmed
 
 

DAY 2: INDIVIDUAL, ORGANISATION, REGION
27th February 2009


Understanding how you fit into the wider picture of restorative partnerships and cross-agency approaches to bullying, anti-social behaviour and violence reduction.

The morning programme

 
09.00 Registration and refreshments
 
09.30 Chair’s Welcome and Introduction
Graham Robb, Board Member, Youth Justice Board
 
09.40 Keynote Address – Developing and Sustaining Cross-Agency
Restorative Approaches to Challenging Behaviour

Neil Scanlon, Head of Lancashire Service for Learners Out of School (LSLOS)
 
10.05 Taking Restorative Approaches Authority-Wide: Case Studies
Wendy Thompson, Deputy Head of Service,Walsall Youth Offending Service
Estelle MacDonald, Headteacher, Collingwood Primary School, Kingston-upon-Hull
Mark Finnis, The Hull Centre for Restorative Practice

An increasing number of areas are developing partnerships and cross-agency working to embed a restorative ethos across their area. These presenters are pioneers in the field.

 
11.35 Questions
 
11.45 Refreshments
 
12.00 World Café – Making Links
Facilitated by Dr Belinda Hopkins, Director, Transforming Conflict
Vanessa Randle,Graphic Recorder

This session will ask a series of questions around experiences of making links between schools, residential care and partners across the Children and Family workforce. This format will allow delegates to ask, and answer, increasingly challenging questions to provide insights into how, and why, links could be made within their own place of work.

 
13.15 Lunch
 

The afternoon programme

 
14.00 Widening Restorative Approaches
Dr Belinda Hopkins, Director, Transforming Conflict
 
14.25 Questions
 
14.30 Workshops
The afternoon workshops will look at the use of restorative approaches to enable an emotionally literate response to challenging behaviour. The workshops will develop the earlier themes from the conference: delivering SEAL, ‘Every Child Matters’ and the ‘Care Matters’ agenda, together with the development of cross-agency restorative approaches.

Workshop A: Restorative Responses to Bullying in Schools and Residential Units
Paul Moran, ex YOT Manager in St Helens; Senior Trainer, Transforming Conflict
Peter Burton, Senior Trainer, Transforming Conflict


Workshop B: Restorative Responses to Low-Level Disruption
Christine Hatwell, Pupil Services Manager, Iffley Mead School, Oxford
Mandy Thompson, Deputy Headteacher, Ormesby School, Middlesbrough


Workshop C: Schools, Residential Homes, YOTs and Police
Officers Working Together – Responding to Anti-Social, Violent and/or Offending Behaviours
Workshop leaders: Gordon Richardson, Wantage Youth Offending Team Manager, Wantage
Wendy Thompson, Deputy Head of Service, Walsall Youth Offending Service
Helen Flanagan, Restorative Approaches Lead, Lancashire County Council
 
16.00 Closing Plenary: Target Setting Until We Meet Again
Graham Robb, Board Member, Youth Justice Board

The closing plenary will provide a summary of the key issues from the conference and will use these as a basis to work with delegates in setting targets and tasks to achieve before the conference in 2010. Come back and tell us all about what you have achieved!

 
16.30 Conference Close
 
 
 
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