Learn more about Community Justice in Scotland by visiting the Community Justice Scotland website.
Community Justice is about preventing and reducing further offending by addressing the underlying causes.
It is where individuals, agencies and services work together to support, manage and supervise people with convictions or with a history of offending.
It aims to reduce offending behaviour and the harm that offending causes, and promote social inclusion and citizenship.
This approach will improve the Criminal Justice landscape, bringing a new perspective which places planning at a local level so that decisions can be made by people who know their area best. Involving communities, the third sector and people with lived experience of the criminal justice system in the planning and delivery of community solutions.
The Orkney Community Justice Partnership want to secure the best possible outcomes for people with convictions, victims and witnesses, families and communities. We want to safely and effectively manage and support those who have committed offences to help them reintegrate and realise their potential for the benefit of the whole community and for all to have access to the support they need to recover from the impact of crime.
The Community Justice Partnership is a collection of statutory services such:
As well as a some of our brilliant third sector services who support to keep our communities safe and inclusive in Orkney. Some key people within this group are:
Check out this video on Restorative Justice
Produced by Community Justice Scotland, Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice, and the Scottish Government.
We are a small Restorative Practices and Arts charity based in Shetland, Orkney and Edinburgh. We offer face to face and online meetings and can work with anyone of any age anywhere in Scotland.
We are managed by a board of trustees who are volunteers. Our board always includes former clients of our service – people harmed through crime.
To contact our local Space2Face Staff visit here.
There are also helpful podcasts from the Empathy Museum which you can listen to here.
If you would like to learn more about the Orkney Community Justice Partnership? Visit the website here.
Here you can read more about the activities of the group by reading minutes from meetings, learn about the Community Justice Outcomes and Improvement Plan (CJOIP) and contact the teams involved in supporting Criminal and Community Justice In Orkney.
During normal office hours Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm Contact Orkney Health and Care Children and Families Services on 01856 873535 extension 3342 or if the person is an adult call 01856 873535 and ask for Adult Social Work
This will take you to The Balfour Hospital switchboard then you ask for the Emergency Social Worker.
