AN EDUCATION & CARE SECTOR CONFERENCE

The 7th Annual Restorative Approaches in Education and Residential Child Care Conference

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

THE RESTORATIVE CLASSROOM & THE RESTORATIVE CARE-HOME: DAY TO DAY PRACTICE

18th March 2011 - IET: Austin Court, Birmingham B1 2NP

This annual Restorative Approaches in Education and Residential Child Care’ conference has become the popular ‘home’ conference for all those working restoratively with young people.
Over the years, this event has brought together professionals from a variety of disciplines: teachers, social workers, education and school managers, YOTS personnel and local authority officers and elected members. The conference is unfailingly challenging and inspirational.

Restorative approaches continue to prove to offer effective responses to conflicts, disruption and anti-social behaviour. They are based on a philosophy of mutual respect, consideration, shared accountability and collaborative problem-solving which needs to permeate the ethos of any institution adopting the approach. This approach will influence all day-to-day interactions between all members of that community.

In residential care this is being explored by linking restorative approaches to social pedagogy. In schools there is an emerging relational and restorative pedagogy that links what is taught, how it is taught and how mistakes and challenges are dealt with. These exciting developments give us the theme of our conference for this year.

Who Should Attend:

• Directors of Education

• Members Responsible for Education

• Headteachers and Senior Pastoral Staff

• Year Heads

• School Governors

• Youth Offending Team Managers

• Educational Psychologists

• Behaviour Support Managers

• Learning Support Managers

• Healthy Schools Advisers

• Safer School Partnership Team Managers

• Residential Social Workers

Previous Conferences

Attendance will enable you to meet old friends, make new ones, share developing practice, find answers and be inspired by speakers, workshop leaders and delegates.

Here are just a few quotes from delegates at previous conferences:
“Very inspiring and informative”
“So many light bulb moments and inspiration”
“Very useful - have taken some brilliant ideas away”
“The conference provided a deepening knowledge and understanding of RA”
“Inspirational speakers and clear structure”
“Thank you for a truly inspiring conference”

Conference style

This conference is friendly and supportive. People sit at small round tables and there is always plenty of opportunity for moving around and meeting lots of people. Everyone brings something special – even if they are completely new to the field.
The conference will employ a variety of formats. Highly regarded plenary speakers will share their knowledge and wisdom; workshops will enable in-depth exploration of key issues, and a World Café approach will be used to enable deepening understanding through dialogue and challenging questions.
This mixture of approaches allows the embedding of restorative principles into the way the conference is run. Delegates will have the chance to work with experts and with each other in a highly interactive way.