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Making it Right
In autumn 2013, PC Nick Hughes was contacted by one of the ‘Victim Contact Team (VCT)’ from Avon & Somerset Probation, this is the team that keeps victims of serious, violent or sexual crimes informed with updates on their offenders.
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A case of persistent noise nuisance has been resolved in South Bristol, through the use of restorative approaches and informal interventions by Bristol City Council, Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol Mediation. In August 2012, a family made a number of complaints to the Police, ASB & Noise Pollution Teams regarding the ...
Continue ReadingExclusion Avoided
At Shirehampton Primary School they pride themselves on quality education they provide their pupils. Several pupils have joined the school having found it challenging to manage their feelings and behaviour in other contexts
Continue ReadingA Stolen Bike
Marcus, a 17 year old young person was working with the Youth Offending Team (YOT) as a result of a Court Order imposed for an offence of burglary where he broke into a shed and stole a bike. Marcus’s victim, Steven, was contacted by the YOT and offered a variety of restorative justice interventions
Continue ReadingNoisy Neighbours
This mediation case was referred to us by a local estate management officer and involved two parties living above and below each other in a social housing block. Both complained of banging, one from the neighbour banging on the floor and the other from banging back on the ceiling. There were also complaints of loud […]
Continue Reading21 Jan 14
Experiences of Restorative Justice in Settings with Children and Young People
Submitted by Duncan Edward Gillard to the University of Exeter as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Educational Psychology in Educational, Child & Community Psychology, in September 2011 Read this document
Continue ReadingFlipchart Mediation
This case involved two young couples, living in two house-type flats (a house divided into two flats, with separate entrances.). Upstairs lived a young woman whose boy-friend was about to move in, but this had stalled because of the conflict with the downstairs couple, recently married. The young woman upstairs had lived there about ...
Continue Reading21 Jan 14
My life as a Police Constable & Restorative Justice facilitator
PC Nick Hughes, Restorative Justice Faclitator for Avon & Somerset Police, gives an account of his work to the Restorative Justice Council magazine.
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