Paul Aruliah
Paul is an Associate with Restorative Now, primarily focussing on restorative practice in education.
He has over 10 years experience as a former teacher and pastoral lead in secondary mainstream schools and a custodial setting. He also brings another layer of expertise having worked in the youth justice field for over 16 years as a practitioner and manager across 3 different London Youth Justice Services.
With this backdrop, Paul understands the education and youth justice context and how restorative practice challenges traditional approaches, to transform schools to communities where positive learning and relationships thrive or youth justice services where victims, children, young people and families are afforded the opportunity of healing where harm has been caused. He also understands the importance of culture change within an organisation if restorative approaches are to become engrained in practice, and the path that needs to be navigated to achieve this.
Paul has worked alongside schools and youth justice services to support them in developing their restorative practice and he has facilitated restorative meetings within the youth justice sector. Having worked in multi-agency settings, he is comfortable training and working with a variety of agencies including Education, Social Care, Health and Criminal Justice.
Paul has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Studies and Mathematics and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Oxford. He has been trained in a number of models which are complimented by restorative practice, including trauma informed and systemic practice. He is a member of the Restorative Justice Council.
Joanne Hughes
Joanne Hughes is an associate with Restorative Now, focussing on restorative practice in healthcare. She has two passions, Patient safety and Restorative Practice. She combines these passions in her training, consultancy and
facilitation offering.
Jo’s first interest in Restorative Practice was in how it could transform responses to patient harm events for everyone’s benefit, patients, families, staff, and others affected, ensuring healing, as well as learning and improving is properly supported, and compounded harm caused by traditional responses minimised.
As she learned more, she quickly recognised the need, and became committed to supporting, healthcare organisations to become Restorative Communities, here the espoused values of these organisations are operationalised through the embedding of restorative principles and practice in all activity, and staff and patients thrive in an environment built on the hallmarks of healthy dignifying relationships.
Jo is part of a national and international network of likeminded restorative
practice academics, educators and practitioners working to grow the Restorative Movement in Healthcare. She stays up to date with the latest ‘Restorative Happenings’ in healthcare from across the globe, sharing these insights with our clients.
As a member and a trustee of the Restorative Justice Council, Jo is helping the RJC to support access to quality specialist training, support and facilitation for UK healthcare providers, by developing the RJC’s offering to its members who are working in the healthcare space.
Jo also has 14 years of experience of providing support to staff, patients and
families affected by patient harm, as well as personal lived experience of this topic. She has worked with NHS England and Improvement on the development of various national guidance, including Learning from Deaths: Working with bereaved families guidance, Safety Culture Guidance, Involving patients in patient safety framework, and Compassionate Engagement and Involvement of Patients Families and Staff following a safety incident. She has delivered training to hundreds of NHS staff on improving harm responses. As co-founder of the HPA, she is instrumental in developing the Harmed Patient Care Pathway in partnership with AvMA.
Jo has given evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on the
need to improve responses to patient harm, as well as the All Party
Parliamentary Group for Restorative Practice on Restorative Practice in healthcare. She is a current member of the Healthcare working group for the Restorative Justice APPG.
Jo undertook her Restorative training both in the UK and from Victoria
University, New Zealand. She is a self-confessed lover of learning and reads
extensively on the subject, as well as attending UK and international conferences to keep her knowledge up to date. Jo has a 1 st class BSc Hons in Science and Business from the Open University.