RT Ltd grew out of winning the 2010 Social Innovation Camp. "SafeGround", now called SafeSpace, won the award for the web-provided-service "most likely to reduce youth custody and youth offending" in the UK. We are keen to find new Youth Offending Team (& other) partners who'd like to improve access to restorative justice i.e. who want to give 'victims' and 'offenders' ways that work for them to communicate to address needs arising from a crime.
Victim Liaison Conference
Mediation Support -Restorative Technology Ltd presentation followed this one on 15th July 2011
The title of this blog post is the front page of the Evening Standard that I am envisioning. Pipe dream? Maybe? Worth working on further; you bet!
Here, from 2010, is the start of the first iteration:
Reporting back to NESTA on the Reboot Britain project Common Ground (as at jailbrake.org) which became SafeGround which was put in place in Devon Youth Offending Team as SafeSpace
What undermined the potential success of a prize-winning idea:
1) Low confidence by the pilot site's staff in the technology being straightforward enough & working well
2) Low levels of creativity in its use & an insufficiently shared vision by pilot site staff to prioritise its use above competing demands on the time of those staff.
3) A deficit either of active promotion by pilot site staff to users of the benefits or of the agreed record keeping about to whom it was being offered to & what their response was.
4) Unwillingness by the staff to change working practices so that those victims and offenders wanting to communicate are not necessarily accompanied in each stage of this communication by the physical presence of a mediator/ restorative justice practitioner.
5) A user group (victims and offenders) with a generally low level of commitment to communication with the related victim(s)/offender(s) for “their crime”.
6) A Restorative Technology Limited “Team” without the strength, focus, flexibility & resources to adjust well to the above factors.