{"id":12062,"date":"2017-02-27T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2017-02-27T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:40:37","slug":"no-silver-parachutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2017\/02\/27\/no-silver-parachutes\/","title":{"rendered":"No silver parachutes"},"content":{"rendered":"
An introduction to Restorative Practice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Last week I found myself in an Elizabethan mansion house<\/a> surrounded by social workers, foster carers and two trainers. Over the next three days I would learn how to cross my arms the wrong way, unravel a forest of in-house social-work acronyms and move across the social discipline window from ‘not’ to ‘with’. \u00a0If that all sounds a little ‘muddy’, perhaps I can explain…<\/p>\n I was attending this course on Restorative Practice as the the guest of West Berkshire Council. \u00a0Inspired by the success of such a shift elsewhere, they are moving their emphasis to working restoratively across the board as part of their ‘building community together’ programme. In order to sustain such a radical change, it is important that both values and praxis are ‘anchored’ in the wider community. Hence, my presence as a local faith leader.<\/p>\n Restorative practice is the child of restorative justice<\/a>, and recognises that doing things the way they have always been done (in justice or social care) will bring the results it has always brought. In the ‘social discipline window’ below, it seeks to move from doing things for (or to) people towards working with them:<\/p>\n