{"id":18787,"date":"2018-03-23T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T09:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=18787"},"modified":"2018-03-23T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T09:18:02","slug":"creating-strong-communities-innovation-programme-wins-lgc-award-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/03\/creating-strong-communities-innovation-programme-wins-lgc-award-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Strong Communities Innovation Programme wins LGC award 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Restorative Practice training and development work VANEL has been contributing to for several years – seeking to embed Restorative Practice and Restorative Justice as underpinnings for professional practice throughout the working life of the Borough has started to be celebrated. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday in London our NELC Childrens Services won the Local Government Chronicle 2018 award for the Creating Strong Communities innovation model which VANEL, through Marcus Czarnecki and his work on Restorative Practice and Restorative Justice have contributed to over the past three years.<\/span><\/p>\n

This unique, innovative way of working, draws on Restorative Practice as a framework for communication and an underpinning to understanding – coupled with \u2018Signs of Safety\u2019, \u2018Family Group Conferencing\u2019, \u2018Adverse Childhood Experiences\u2019 and \u2018Outcomes Based Accountability\u2019 it provides a powerful, equality centred and people focussed model where we do things WITH people rather than AT them, TO them or FOR them. <\/span><\/p>\n

It started as a training for all professionals who work with and around children, young people and families – from pre-birth to adulthood \u2013 but now is a framework for the organisation itself \u2013 training administrators, accountants, lawyers, refuse collectors, adult care workers, civic receptionists and call centre workers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately the work is about transforming and reversing the very fabric of the dependency culture and enabling families to make decision for themselves based on respect, empowerment and encouragement – with professionals modelling that empowering behaviour. That is largely why we have won \u2013 because this transformation in the lives of actual people is really happening. <\/span><\/p>\n

Funded through various sources over a number of years, I have trained more than 700 NELC staff in Restorative Practice – including Social Workers, Family Hub workers, Domestic Violence workers, School Nurses, Family Health Advisors\/visitors, Police Officers, Teachers, CVS partners. <\/span><\/p>\n

The wider vision has included Restorative processes providing a model for all \u2013 including Restorative Schools, whole organisation change programmes, bespoke programmes for Probation, Mentoring, Teenage Pregnancy, Domestic Violence, Childhood Trauma, Trauma informed working, Conflict transformation. Victimhood, Neighbour Disputes and of course fully restorative community dialogues \u2013 open to all. The work continues\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

Comment from Rob Walsh Chief Executive of NELC
\n<\/span>\u201cHow proud we should all be of everyone involved in Children\u2019s Services \u2013 all the hard work, effort, commitment and innovation was fully recognised last night with the announcement that we were victorious in the Children\u2019s Services category at the LGC Awards 2018. On the back of last summer\u2019s Ofsted judgement, this award affirms the amazing work being done by all involved in our services to children, young people and families, in the midst of some very difficult challenges and undiminished pressures. The Local Government sector has formally acknowledged that our innovative model , still in the course of development and implementation, is the right one and the sector wants to know more ! Superb achievement by all involved, proud to be around to see it happen and be recognised. Well done all.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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A lot of work has been invested in the Creating Strong Communities innovation model over the past few years – not least in embedding aspects of Restorative Practice and Restorative Justice supported through VANEL. And this work has just been rewarded with an award win this week. Read on to find out more about the programme, the work and the award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[517],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-4T1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18789,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions\/18789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}