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An
Education & Care Sector Conference
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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 |
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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.
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The
morning programme
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| 10.00 |
Registration and
refreshments |
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| 11.00 |
Chair’s Welcome and
Introduction
Dr Belinda Hopkins, Transforming Conflict |
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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. |
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| 11.10 |
Getting
Started - the Primary School Experience
Jayne Franklin, Headteacher, Childs Hill Primary
School, London Borough of Barnet |
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| 11.35 |
Getting
Started - the Secondary School Experience
Rory Wilson, Deputy Headteacher, East Barnet School,
London Borough of Barnet |
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| 12.00 |
Comfort Break |
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| 12.15 |
Getting Started - the
Special School Experience
Speaker to be confirmed |
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| 12.40 |
Care Matters – the
Residential Child Care Experience
Dave Ayres, High Peak and North Dales Residential
Services,
Derbyshire County Council |
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Questions and Discussion |
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| 13.15 |
Lunch with Exhibition |
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The
afternoon programme
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| 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.
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| 16.00 |
Refreshment Break |
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| 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 |
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| 17.30 |
Closing Plenary
Speaker to be confirmed |
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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
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| 09.00 |
Registration and
refreshments |
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| 09.30 |
Chair’s Welcome and
Introduction
Graham Robb, Board Member, Youth Justice Board |
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| 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) |
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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. |
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| 11.35 |
Questions |
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| 11.45 |
Refreshments |
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| 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.
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| 13.15 |
Lunch |
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The
afternoon programme
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| 14.00 |
Widening Restorative
Approaches
Dr Belinda Hopkins, Director, Transforming
Conflict |
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| 14.25 |
Questions |
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| 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 |
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| 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! |
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| 16.30 |
Conference Close |
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