Performance Standards

This joint project between the Ministry of Justice and Restorative Justice Aotearoa is progressing well. The Ministry has contracted Leon Bakker to advance the work in developing performance standards that can be used by providers. RJA was asked to co ordinate a group representative of providers to meet and critique the work done so far.

We came to Wellington from the far North and the far South and parts in between on Friday 18th May 2007 and spent an intense day discussing, comparing, sharing, debating.....we being, Mariameno Kapa from Whangarei, Mike Hinton from Mangere, Dylan Marriott from PACT in Auckland, Winifred Murray from St Luke’s Auckland, Mark Rutledge from Nelson, Siobhan Collins from Christchurch and Josie Dolan from Dunedin and Alison Hill, Julia Hennessy and Leon from the Ministry. Between us we represented the various roles and structures delivering restorative justice in Aotearoa.

Our focus was on getting the basics right; once these are in place, measures and processes should flow from them. The aim is to furnish providers with a straightforward set of performance standards (and some draft policies that groups may use if they don't wish to develop their own)

Siobhan Collins