by Rosie Chadwick
Produced by the Victims’ Commissioner, the Victims Statistics 2020 include this striking graphic.
Victims statistics, year ending March 2019: victims services, restorative justice, and information, advice and support (Victims Commissioner for England and Wales, 2020)
Some of the sample sizes are small, and you could argue about the wording of the questions, but the overarching messages seem clear: there’s lots more we could and should be doing to make a reality of victims’ right to receive information on RJ; and there is demand for this from victims.
It will be great to hear more from our conference contributors next week on what can be done to ‘shift the dial.’