Restorative Circles chosen by NESTA for their 'radical efficiency'
We're delighted to see the folks at the UK National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts celebrating the contribution Restorative Circles can make to safer, and more intelligently funded, community services.
The Radical Efficiency report, published this week by NESTA, the UK's leading social innovation think tank, features social technologies that, in their words, deliver "much better public outcomes for much lower cost".
Restorative Circles are one of 10 such innovations studied in the report, of over 100 surveyed. These 10 were chosen because they are "demonstrably different, better and lower cost than traditional approaches". NESTA found us because of the results RCs produce.
They write, "(these) examples of radical efficiency... harness the potential of new technologies and the power of community participation and creation. These different, better and lower cost public services – whether they enable restorative justice in Brazil or facilitate Mental Health First Aid in Australia – all work with the grain of these new sources of value, not against them. These innovators recognise that the challenge lies in how we shape this new world, not whether or not it will emerge. It is already happening."
Check out their report, published this week at www.nesta.org.uk
Or read / download it here.
For quick access to some of the key points, read pages 1 - 4, 8, 19 and 41 - 43.
If you'd like to see all the RC references, just search for 'restorative' within the document.
And to read about the report being presented to the UK government, visit: http://bit.ly/aHOKrl
