It is meeting with the Dep-artment for Education and Skills and otherpartners to see how such schemes can be expanded. Options beingconsidered include increased funding and national guidance.
Restorative justice involves bringing victims and offenders together totalk about what has happened.
Mike Hutchins, policy lead at the board, said: "There is a concern,expressed by magistrates, about private children's homes reportinglooked-after children to the police for fairly low-level offending."
He added: "Where restorative justice schemes have been introduced inchildren's homes offending rates seem to have reduced."
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