Countering Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse 2021
Online Event 25 February 2021, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Day 1
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Cllr Gordon Watson, Deputy Leader of the Council and Advisory Cabinet Member for Children and Young People’s Services, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
9:40am
Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: The Way Forward
Sheila Taylor MBE, CEO, NWG Network
10:00am
Supporting Frontline Healthcare Staff To Fight Against Child Sexual Exploitation Through A CSE Named Nurse Team
- Developing effective joint working practices with health providers across the local health economy
- Providing expertise and advice on case management and access to further resources
- Supporting practitioners and safeguarding leads in delivering CSE training and group supervision
- Embedding regional standards into frontline practice and raising the profile of CSE
- Providing a point of contact for reporting concerns about the safety or welfare of a child
Louise Powell, Safeguarding Children Named Nurse, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
10:20am
The National Child Sexual Exploitation Action Plan: Developing New Ways Of Working For The Police To Target Offenders And Protect Children
- Identifying the scale of the threat and enabling thousands of children to come forward and report abuse at the hands of peers
- Working with parents and guardians to ensure that children are as resilient as possible and able to spot the signs of exploitation, grooming and abuse
- Delivering the National CSE Action Plan: using Home Office funding to invest in Detective Inspectors
- Understanding where CSE hotspots are and the profiles of people engaged in CSE
- Bringing third sector organisations into the network to ensure a joined-up response that prevents abuse
Laura Hillier, Detective Inspector, Vulnerability, Central Specialist Crime, Metropolitan Police Service
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Break and Networking
11:35am
Enabling Parents And Carers To Adopt An Essential Safeguarding Role In Preventing CSE
- Developing a multi-agency approach to implement parent-friendly practices which can increase the chances of keeping children safe and exiting exploitative relationships
- Working with parents and carers to respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis
- Managing the impact and long-term effects of child sexual exploitation on the child and the family
- Enabling parents’ voices to be heard in the implementation of policies affecting sexually exploited children
- Improving parents’ experiences of the children’s social care system when a child is sexually exploited
Dr Sarah Lloyd, Trainer and Consultant, Parents Against Child Exploitation (Pace)
11:55am
Case Study: Nottinghamshire County Council’s Developing Contextual Safeguarding Response To CSE
- Protecting vulnerable children from sexual exploitation- a combined strategic and “ground-up” approach
- Increasing coordination and collaboration between agencies to improve services for at risk children- a placed based pilot
- Taking account of children and families’ voices to shape our systems and processes
Kirstin Lamb, Child Sexual Exploitation Coordinator, Nottinghamshire County Council
12:15pm
Case Study: Helping Children Who Have Been Victims Of Abuse To Rehabilitate
- Navigating a lack of research trialling different types of intervention for children who have experienced domestic violence and abuse
- Examining the impact of CODA (Children Overcoming Domestic Abuse) and the difference it makes to children and their families
- Trialling the intervention at Cardiff Women’s Aid and Family Action
- Combining the experience and knowledge of practitioners working with women and children with strong evidence regarding the benefits and possible harms of such programmes
Dr Emma Howarth, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of East London
12:35pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:55pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Keynote Address: Highlighting The Increased Risk Of Harm To Children Online Due To The COVID-19 Pandemic
- The COVID-19 digital effect in migrating many physical activities online and its expected impact on children
- The increase of individuals searching for child sexual abuse content online
- Indicators from European law enforcement authorities with regards to child sexual exploitation from Europol’s ‘Catching the virus; cybercrime, disinformation and the COVID-19 pandemic’ report
- The impact on children’s mental health and wellbeing as a result of imposed restrictions and how this makes them more vulnerable to CSE
- Utilising the available resources to meet the challenges if the effects of COVID-19
David Wright, UK Safer Internet Centre Director, SWGfL
2:00pm
Case Study: Implementing A Contextual Safeguarding Framework To Strengthen The Safeguarding Response To Vulnerable Children And Young People
- Creating a system that can accept and record referrals for contexts as well as individual children and young people
- Effectively screening and assessing peer groups, schools and neighbourhood contexts
- Developing tools for practitioners and the wider community to aid their involvement in contextual safeguarding
- Using DfE funding to embed systemic change over a two-year period
Cllr Gordon Watson, Deputy Leader of the Council and Advisory Cabinet Member for Children and Young People’s Services, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
2:20pm
Question And Answer
2:45pm
Chair’s Summary And Close
Cllr Gordon Watson, Deputy Leader of the Council and Advisory Cabinet Member for Children and Young People’s Services, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
3:00pm
Consultation