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 Outside Our Lady’s High School in Motherwell
The bike recycling workshop at Restorative Justice has
donated a number of bikes to young people who are in contact with education and
social work services in North Lanarkshire.
The workshop refurbishes and repairs bikes, bringing them
back to good working order and ultimately able to be enjoyed by the young people
of North Lanarkshire.
The restorative justice service manages the placements male
service users who undertake unpaid work as part of their Community Payback
Order. This workshop aims at teaching
service users cycle repair skills as part of their Community Payback Order. Staff
identify ‘scrapped’ bikes from a local amenity site. These bikes are brought back to the workshop
where service users repair and refurbish them to a roadworthy standard before
donating to schools, nurseries and various groups in the community.
Restorative justice have repaired, and donated, over twenty
bikes to young people in contact with social work services since this workshop started
in February 2017.
Buchanan High School,
Coatbridge has received 20 refurbished bikes so far. As well as
donating bikes, the workshop has repaired 15 of the school’s own bikes and
trikes. Deputy Head teacher, Catriona Gibbons gave her thanks in the
school’s recent newsletter,
“A huge thank you to North Lanarkshire Community Payback
Scheme for their kind donation of reconditioned bikes and for their offer to
make any repairs necessary to our current stock of bicycles
Fitness and getting active are a vital part of the
children’s curriculum as well their educational needs.”
Lynn Zambonini from Our
Lady’s High School, Motherwell approached the Restorative Justice team
after hearing about our bike recycling workshop. Ms Zambonini said,
“This is a great venture and Our Lady’s are very thankful
for the 30 bikes which have been donated. We are currently working in
partnership with Sustrans Scotland, which supports schools and encourages
pupils to travel actively to school, giving them the chance to be more active
and improve their confidence, so these bikes have proven very beneficial and
will help the school pupils greatly.”
If you are linked to a charitable organisation or a school
within North Lanarkshire, and would be interested in receiving bikes through
this scheme, please email restorative justice on restorativejusticecl@northlan.gcsx.gov.uk
 Love Learning
Scotland is an organisation that promotes social inclusion through attainment,
education and social integration. Love Learning Scotland are working in
partnership with North Lanarkshire Justice Services to deliver The Step Forward
programme.
The Step
Forward Programme is a new initiative offered to justice service users who are
subject to an Unpaid Requirement of Community Payback Orders. The programme provides
opportunities for people to learn core skills: numeracy, literacy,
communication and IT. Love Learning Scotland also offer an employability award,
and a programme aimed at reducing violence.
Opportunities
to integrate with the local community are available to service users, as well
as support tailored to meet the needs and experiences of the individual.
Support Staff from Love Learning Scotland are available for support seven days
a week from 7am till 9pm, with a 24 hour helpline also available.
Referrals
can be made by justice staff based within restorative justice and the justice
locality teams.
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Our team decided to raise money for World Down Syndrome Day,
after one of our workers read about an inspiring young person in the
newspaper. It was agreed: come to work
wearing an odd sock, or risk a forfeit!
We were delighted that all staff in restorative justice took
part. For those who didn’t manage to come
into work with an odd sock that morning, we had odd socks for sale. All in all we raised £81, a really impressive
achievement for one team.
As well as money raised, we also raised awareness of Down
Syndrome. We had such good fun, we’ve
got the next World Down Syndrome Day in our team diary - Thursday 21 March 2019.
If you are interested in joining the restorative
justice team in raising funds for World Down Syndrome Day 2019, please let us
know. Or find out more about the issues associated with Down Syndrome on their
website: https://worlddownsyndromeday.org
The new North Lanarkshire Drug Testing and Treatment
Service was launched in April 2018. This
was as a result of a review of the service, which concluded that it would be
beneficial for Drug Treatment and Testing Orders (known as DTTOs) to be
delivered locally to individuals from within North Lanarkshire Council area.
The NL DTTO Service works with individuals in their own
locality, to deliver a robust alternative to custody. The service is a
partnership between justice social work and addiction recovery teams.
Individuals are seen twice weekly by addictions workers
for support and drug testing, as well as having regular contact with nurses and
social workers. All individuals made subject to a DTTO have a personalised plan,
aimed towards reduced drug-use, reduced offending and increased positive
involvement in local communities.
DTTOs were introduced in Scotland through the Crime and
Disorder Act 1998, and from the point of introduction, this service was
delivered in the Lanarkshire area by South Lanarkshire Justice Services on
behalf of North Lanarkshire Justice Services.
Drug Treatment and Testing Orders are one of the many
sentencing options open to Court, when deciding how to deal with an
individual’s offending behaviour. As
the name suggests, Drug Treatment and Testing Orders are specifically designed for
individuals who have a long-standing drug misuse issues and whose offending is
closely linked to their drug misuse. When imposing a DTTO, the Court expects to
see a reduction in drug-use and offending.
Find out more information about the North Lanarkshire
Drug Treatment and Testing Order Service
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