In Louise Tickle's powerful article in The Guardian this week here, she looks closely at the approach to using Restorative Justice in schools. The article reflects on the number of children who have been permanently excluded across Gloucestershire, and across the UK, but then considers the impact of the technique of Restorative Justice on shifting the behaviour culture in our schools. It is a … Continue reading The healing power of Restorative Justice
Month: April 2017
Guardian report – Restorative Justice
Follow link to Louise Tickle's powerful article here in The Guardian this week which looks closely at our approach to using Restorative Justice at GA:
Christmas at the Gloucester Royal
At the start of shift 3 she hands me a tea, Just half a sugar. Like I like it now. In the day room. Like a regular. A too-familiar welcome for a place We want to leave. While somewhere in the quiet, Subterranean darkness, a registrar Half my age, is cutting up my perfectly-shaped boy. As … Continue reading Christmas at the Gloucester Royal
‘Lord Hereford’s Knob’ – The Black Mountains
Sharp-angled sunshine catches up with us On Hay Bluff, racing over bracken bent By showers stacking up against the dark And brooding layers of the Black Mountains. My boy and I we laugh along the ridge, Gaze across the peak of Lord Hereford’s Knob, And giggle at the future insults we will trade. We slide … Continue reading ‘Lord Hereford’s Knob’ – The Black Mountains
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