Great to have the Chair of the Restorative Justice APPG Advisory Board Jim Simon at our offices discussing the exciting work being undertaken across the country following the publication of the APPG Inquiry Report. #RestorativeJustice

It was wonderful to host John Bender, Chairman of CANZUK International at CalComms HQ to discuss all things CANZUK and how the alliance can take centre stage in a post-Brexit world!

Thanks to all those who attended our APPG meeting today Elliot Colburn @Rees4Neath as well as our dedicated Advisory Board members. It was a pleasure to update our Members on the hard work of the recent evidence gathering sessions.

End of week #Planning thread: the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill contains powers to introduce a new infrastructure levy, which is designed to replace the current system of community infrastructure levy (CIL) and negotiated section 106 agreements. 1/5

The APPG Advisory Board was delighted to conduct its first consultation event for Workstream One "Raising practitioner standards within the criminal justice sector" Our thanks go to all who contributed, as well Tony Walker - RJ and Jim Simon for running the event.

The APPG is pleased to see our Chair Elliot Colburn ask Tom Pursglove that access to Restorative Justice Services will be enshrined in the Victims’ Bill, and funding for the services to be delivered?

There is still time to contribute to building the knowledge of Restorative Practice in the UK. If you wish to help us do so, then please follow this link and fill out our survey: rjappg.co.uk/investigation/

Boris Johnson has survived today's leadership challenge. The embattled PM successfully prevailed in today's Vote of Confidence. He needed to secure 180 or more votes from his fellow Tory MPs and secured 211 in favour, with 148 against. 1/3

The APPG is delighted to see the chair of our Advisory Board Jim Simon present the inaugural inquiry report into restorative justice to Naomi Long MLA in Belfast yesterday. To view this report for yourself follow this link: rjappg.co.uk/inquiryreport/

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Bees and Pollinators was delighted today to host a meeting between our chair @tony4rochdale and the members of our Advisory Board. In this meeting, we discussed the vital work that needs to be done to protect our bees and pollinators 🐝🐝🐝

As part of our ongoing investigation into restorative practices the APPG was grateful that one of our Vice-Chair's Jenny Jones could host our latest evidence-gathering session. Our thanks go to the presenters @janice__nwd and her team, Jim Simon and Dr Terence Bevington.

For the second time in 4 months, CalComms has secured a fantastic result for our client, a small family developer in Central London.

As the Group Secretariat to the APPGCommonwealthGames we have been working to engage schools across the West Midlands with the Games. Recently, we helped organise a fantastic Westminster tour for Holte School, including a Q&A with the Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston MP and APPG Members!

We look forward to bringing local and national MPs to educational centres across Birmingham in the coming weeks to help celebrate the Games and engage meaningfully with the local students! #CommonwealthGames #CG2022 #Birmingham2022

The APPG was pleased to host a meeting of the Advisory Board today to discuss this year's workstreams. We were delighted to hear that strong progress is being made ready to present to Parliamentarians later this year! Our thanks, as always go to our dedicated Board Members

As Group Secretariat, we are always delighted to organise and facilitate meetings of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Restorative Justice and we look forward to building on the success of last year's inaugural inquiry report.

On the hottest day of the year so far, CalComms will try and resist making too many heat based puns, however... With the Conservative Party leadership race heating up ☀️☀️☀️, the contenders have begun to discuss housing.

🚨Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has been stripped of the whip by Boris Johnson for failing to support the government in last night’s confidence vote.🚨

Kemi Badenoch is the latest to be knocked out of the race to become the next Conservative Party Leader. This leaves Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt left to compete over Ms Badenoch's 59 supporters.

The APPG is pleased to see that Restorative Justice is to be considered as part of the commission on the Grenfell Tower fire. It is important that the principles of restorative practices are considered across the range of restorative interventions. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a…