NEWS
October 2007
The Howard League for Penal Reform have published a report which calls for conflict resolution and restorative approaches to be used in educational programmes for children and young people. They epropose a bottom up local partnership approach, based in schools, emphasising educationf.
The report, which surveyed 3,000 children, reveals how they experience crime in schools and communities and the need for adults to acknowledge and act to ensure children feel safe from crime and bullying.
They believe that ebetter solutions on dealing with child victimisation and crime can be found in expanding and developing conflict resolution and mediation based techniques into educational programmes for schoolsf.
This would ego hand in hand with listening to children talk about their own experiences as victims - helping them to develop social skills, self-esteem and assertiveness, and showing them how to resolve conflicts peacefully by making informed choices about their own actions, and rejecting behaviour harmful to themselves and othersf
For more information, visit the Howard League website