| Just Care : Restorative Justice Approaches to Working with Children in Public Care Restorative justice is an innovative approach to addressing conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour. A restorative approach in a care setting shifts the emphasis from managing and responding to anti-social behaviour to the building, nurturing and repairing of relationships, and encourages the young person to accept responsibility and put things right. Belinda Hopkins is Director and Lead Trainer of Transforming Conflict, The National Centre for Restorative Justice in Youth Settings. She is author of Just Schools - A Whole School Approach to Restorative Justice, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. |