Lost Memories: A Restorative Story - Ages 4 to 11 Teachers Guide: Introducing Restorative & Relational Processes

About John BoultonLes Davey

Les Davey was a founder member of Thames Valley Police Restorative Justice Consultancy he was responsible for the development and roll out of their RJ training from 1996 until 2000. Since then Les led IIRP's work in the UK & Ireland first as Director of Real Justice UK and later CEO of the UK registered charity - International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Europe until he stood down in June 2016. Les has a long involvement in the development and revision of UK National Occupational Standards for Restorative Practice and the Best Practice Guidance upon which they are based. Les was founding Chair of the Restorative Justice Council (RJC) Standards and Accreditation Board when he led the work on the RJC Trainers Code its subsequent revision and the early work on the RJC Practitioners Register. He has also previously held the post of RJC Vice-Chair. His most recent focus has been upon the use of restorative processes (and the training of others) in complex and sensitive cases (including historic child abuse) and more recently developing tools for use with Professional Learning Groups/Communities and designing surveys to measure results in the implementation of RP in organisations and schools. The recent move to more 'on-line' training has added a whole new way of bringing RP to all we work with. John Boulton was the principal of a residential special school for EBSD (Emotional Behavioural and Social Difficulties) pupils in Oxfordshire England for 15 years. He introduced restorative justice into the school in February 2004. In 2005-2006 he was awarded a Churchill Foundation Travel Award to research restorative justice in the United States and in particular visit the different types of provision within the IIRP organisation. John was IIRP Europe Director of Training and Consultancy from June 2010 until June 2016 when he stood down. During that time he has worked with various agencies. local authorities sports organisations and universities etc. In particular he has been supporting the successful implementation roll out and sustainability of RP in Denmark West Tallaght Childhood Development Initiative Dublin and the in the City & County of Swansea. Particular interests include RP as a tool for organisational change the application of RP in different setting and supporting organisations as they seek to find their own solutions to the issues they face.