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Conference speakers announced
Practical Responses to Child Sexual Exploitation
Tuesday 15th May 2012 - London (The British Library)
Tim Loughton will give a keynote address followed by a question and answer session. Speakers will focus on practical interventions that help young people, parents/carers, and professionals to both prevent and stop this type of sexual abuse. We will also explore proven strategies for tackling the perpetrators, including deterrence, investigation, disruption and prosecution.
Speakers confirmed:
- Tim Loughton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families - Keynote address & Questions and Answers Session.
- Sue Berelowitz, The Deputy Children's Commissioner - Conference Chair
- Debbie Platt, Head of Public Protection Unit, Derbyshire Constabulary - Policing CSE post Op. Retriever
- Aravinda Korsaraju, CROP, Overview of prosecution experience in the UK
- Alyas Khamani, StreetOnline - raising awareness of sexual violence and CSE with young asian
- Lewis Hunt and Ian Janes, Serious Organised Crime Agency - launch of the Alert System
- Cynthia Rich, introduction to the EDIS Case Management System
- Kamran Abassi, Advanced Childcare - launch of new therapeutic care accommodation for young people affected by CSE
Workshops:
- Overview of new range of training courses offered by justWhistle
- Demonstration of CSE awareness-raising e-learning programme
- Demonstration of the EDIS Case Management System
Exhibition:
- There will also be a small exhibition with spaces for pop-up or table-top displays.
Extra Glasgow date for Engaging Young People
In response to demand, we have added another Glasgow date for the Engaging Vulnerable Young People Course. It will run on the morning (now sold out) and afternoon (places available) of the 29th March at Glasgow Airport. Please go to the event page to book your place.
Safe and Sound Open Days
In repsonse to demand, we are organising an open day for people wanting to visit the Safe and Sound Project here in Derby and find out about how the project works. Watch this space for more information.
New dates for "Train the Trainers"
New dates for "Raising awareness of CSE with young people" - training for teachers and other practitioners who work directly with young people at risk of sexual exploitation.
- Derby/Nottingham - 18th April
- London - 19th April
- Birmingham - 25th April
- Manchester - 26th April
- York - 8th May
2012 conference date announced
The 5th National Safe and Sound conference will take place on Tuesday 15th May 2012 at the British Library in London (near Euston/St Pancras/Kings Cross Stations). The theme for the day will be "Practical and Effective Responses to Child Sexual Exploitation" and will aim to address the recommendations of the new National Action Plan. Tim Loughton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, will be the Keynote speaker at the conference.
Please watch the events page for more information and to make your booking.
2012 training dates announced
New dates have now been planned for all our training courses in 2012. Please see the events page for details and bookings.
CEOP Publishes Grooming Report
The UK’s national centre for child protection – the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre – today published the findings of a six month investigation into the devastating crime that has widely been called “on street grooming”.
The report calls for a number of improvements in the national response to this issue and includes the following specific recommendations relating to training:
- LSCB's should ensure that there is sufficient specialist training for frontline service providers so they are equipped to identify children at risk.
- Policing teams that come into contact with victims or offenders need to have an understanding of child sexual exploitation. Training should be provided to appropriate police units and teams and police forces ....
Phil Smith, Director of justWhistle, said "We welcome this report and its recommendations for improving the national response to this issue, and we are ready to help by rolling out our proven CSE-awareness training courses across the UK".
To see CEOP's press release please follow this link:
http://www.ceop.police.uk/Media-Centre/Press-releases/2011/DONT-LEAVE-VICTIMS-OUT-OF-MIND-OUT-OF-SIGHT/
For media coverage of this story, please follow this link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jun/29/child-exploitation-agency-extent-of-sexual-abuse
Manchester and Telford Media Coverage
Two more major CSE investigations have featured in the news this week. We will be following these operations closely to ensure our training courses take on board any new lessons to be learned.
Manchester - Operation Windermere http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jun/14/manchester-police-raid-sex-crime-gang
Telford - Operation Chalice http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-13766736
Delegate feedback hits new highs
Delegate feedback from our most recent events has been extremely good to read - in one bespoke event in May over 90% of delegates gave the event 10/10 for value!
More importantly, this team were really fired up by the event, and came up with some really good ideas to improve their services to children and young people.
Updated PPI Course Dates
We are now taking bookings for our updated CSE Prevention, Protection and Investigation course that has recently been reviewed to take account of recent reports and national policy developments.
Please go to the Events page for more details.
