Procedural Justice

Feeling fairly treated matters.

It matters across all areas of our lives, including in the workplace, in criminal justice, in education, and in healthcare. 

Focussing on fairness is one of the best evidenced ways to improve a whole host of outcomes for people and organisations.   

Why you need this training:

Organisations benefit significantly from procedurally just practice.  PJ can be a quick, simple, and economical way to improve outcomes that matter to you. 

Robust scientific evidence repeatedly shows that more PJ equals:

In workplaces:

  • Increased employee compliance with policies and rules
  • Greater professional conduct 
  • Better relationships between colleagues and with leaders 
  • Lower stress levels, sickness absence rates, and burnout 
  • Greater commitment to the organisation 
  • Greater likelihood of staying in the job (reduced staff turnover) 
  • Higher life and job satisfaction ratings

In criminal justice settings:

  • Reduced rates of rule-breaking and violence in prison 
  • Increased emotional/psychological health for prisoners 
  • Reduced self-harm and attempted suicide by prisoners 
  • Reduced reoffending after release (by 5.3 percentage points estimated by one study) 
  • Improved compliance with licence conditions in the community 
  • Fewer arrests  
  • Better engagement and relationships with Probation Officers 
  • Greater involvement by people on probation in their sentence planning 
  • Increased future orientation and positive beliefs about desisting from crime 
Our PJ training packages

 

We can design bespoke training to suit your organisation and the outcomes that matter most to you.  Different packages provide different outcomes.  Training options include: 

Online introductory package
A 20-minute, self-directed online ‘introduction to PJ’ resource. Builds awareness and motivation: attendees will understand what PJ is, what it ‘looks like’ in their work, and why it is important.
Basic package
A half-day, in-person or online, group-based and interactive ‘understanding PJ’ workshop. Builds knowledge and motivation: attendees will understand what PJ is, what it ‘looks like’ in their work, why and how it can achieve better outcomes, and how they can apply PJ principles through concrete practice examples.
Capability building package
A 1-day, in-person, group-based and interactive ‘understanding and applying PJ’ workshop. Builds knowledge, motivation, and skills: includes all of the ‘basic’ package plus specially designed skills practices and development activities to increase capability and confidence in using PJ principles in daily work.
Enhanced package
Our 1-day ‘capability’ package plus post-training bespoke support sessions with a PJ specialist. In addition to achieving the outcomes of the capability package, the enhanced package includes four continuous professional development sessions (1 hour, online, over 4 months) tailored to individual need.
Leadership package
Six sessions of one-to-one or group-based coaching, in person or online, for senior leaders in your organisation. Tailored to local needs and priorities, including strategic approaches to the organisation’s development of PJ (e.g., sequencing, targeting, and evaluating impact), and PJ support/implementation tools development, if desired.
Training for trainers package
A 2-day group-based course to enable your colleagues to provide in-house PJ support and train more of your staff in applying the principles of PJ in the workplace. Our most advanced training package: attendees will be able to competently deliver PJ training to their own colleagues, provide ad hoc PJ advice to your organisation, and access to additional, bespoke, professional development support from PJ specialists for 18-months post-training.
Organisational ‘health check’ package
An in-depth examination of the health of PJ in your organisation, with tailored advice for development activity. Designed in collaboration with the organisation, and includes reviewing management data, policies, procedures, observations, and focus groups/surveys. Clients will receive a PJ report, including specific recommendations for enhancing PJ practice in the organisation.
Contact us to find out more
Why choose us?

 

Dr Flora Fitzalan Howard and Professor Helen Wakeling are leading experts in procedural justice.  They have conducted and published the largest and most robust research on PJ in prisons and probation settings in the UK.   

Flora spearheaded the PJ national improvement programme across HM Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales, focussing on getting better outcomes for employees, people in prison or under supervision in the community, and ultimately the public. 

Flora and Helen have decades of experience enabling PJ practice development, including by frontline staff at all levels and from different disciplines, leaders and managers, policy writers, and programme and strategy leads. 

Great event, well-paced and good level of knowledge of the principles of procedural justice and how to apply them. I feel confident going forward to deliver this training myself now, but also in how to apply this in my own professional practice.

This training has surpassed my expectations. The intricacy of detail around each procedural justice principle, and the consequences and the research to back it up helped solid learning.

Fantastic training, informative and immediately safe environment for learning and questioning. Great practices learnt for my every day, in and out of work.

The passion from the trainers was infectious. They were very knowledgeable and encouraging. They were inclusive and made everyone feel valued.
HM Prison and Probation Service
Frontline prison officers/mentors & Probation practice improvement leads
The training was amazing. It was really relevant and I can see where it would be important to implement in practice.

Excellent and informative training. Thought-provoking and useful for self-reflection in practice.

Fantastic training – please do more of this! Really helped me to reflect on my approach with patients.
West London NHS Trust
Forensic Social Work Team