About this Event
Join with colleagues from across the country to learn from parents with lived experience of child sexual and criminal exploitation. Improve how you safeguard children at risk of exploitation, share barriers you are facing and develop creative responses you can apply in your role. This will be a safe learning environment where you can learn from parents and your peers how to support families affected by child exploitation from risk through to recovery.
Timings
9.30am Coffee, registration 9.45am, finish 4.30pm.
Cost
£95 per person, includes lunch and refreshments. Plus Eventbrite administrative booking fee. Option to pay by invoice when you Check Out.
Learning Objectives
Parent facilitators will share their lived experiences to support attendees in their:
- Understanding of applying contextual safeguarding approaches with a relational model.
- Recognising the needs of neurodivergent children and their experiences of exploitation.
- Recognising how trauma impacts families affected by exploitation and how services can support recovery or further traumatise.
- Understanding barriers to safety, how to recognise these within your service, and steps you can take to reduce them.
- Recognising the impact negative relationships between statutory services and parents have through the child’s eyes.
- Recognising how bias impacts upon the safeguarding of children and the partnership with parents.
You will also have the opportunity to network with other services and develop strategies to take forward for working in partnership with parents.
Speakers
Parents with lived experience
Parents with lived experience of child exploitation will host workshops throughout the day with specific focuses in the following areas:
- SEND, neurodiversity and education
- Intersectionality
- Trauma-informed practice
- Transitional safeguarding
- Barriers with current safeguarding processes
CEO, Lindsay Dalton will be chairing the conference.
Peer to peer support
There will be opportunities throughout the day to hear from, and connect with agencies and colleagues across the country who are using different approaches to safeguarding children at risk.
Feedback from professionals who attended the Lived Experience Conference in Manchester this year
"This was the most powerful conference I've been and it completely changed my perspective on parents work."
"To say that the inputs from the parents were impactful is an obvious understatement. Following the conference I have doubled my efforts to include and involve parents in policing decisions affecting their children and ensure that I deal with the whole family with humanity."
"I thoroughly enjoyed the training and found it invaluable. I work directly with young people who are victims of exploitation and this training has supported me in ensuring support is in place for parents and ensuring that their views are heard and advocated for, alongside the young people themselves."
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
CCLA Investment Management, 1 Angel Lane, London, United Kingdom
GBP 103.63
