Overview
The Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation Conference explores leading solutions and practical insights into effectively preventing, identifying and eradicating child sexual exploitation across the UK.
Through policy updates, discussions around key issues and the delivery of practical guidance, delegates will assess how to enhance multi-agency responses, the next steps in improving children’s understanding and resilience to sexual exploitation and abuse and how all services can deliver outstanding safeguarding to protect children at risk.
With innovations being championed to tackle child abuse and exploitation in all its forms, including through the Government’s Safety Tech Challenge Fund as well is that being led by local councils and community partners, greater efforts must be made to meet the aims and recommendations of the Government’s 2021 Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy.
Join together with a cross-section of colleagues at this annual Conference to explore and implement the next steps together.
Reasons to attend
- Assess the impact of COVID-19 on effectively identifying and preventing child sexual exploitation
- Explore the next steps in supporting high quality multi-agency responses to support children at risk
- Examine what the new Government Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy means for your role
- Network with leaders from across the public sector seeking innovative approaches in challenging CSE
Key Speakers
Agenda
This session will offer an overview of the key themes outlined in the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy 2021 and provide updates on the implementation of initiatives so far, including plans for future spending allocations.
Progress will be assessed on meeting the Strategy objectives since its launch, and research-informed recommendations will be provided on how all partner agencies can continue to strengthen approaches to:
- Tackle all forms of CSA and bring offenders to justice
- Prevent offending and re-offending
- Protect and safeguard every child and young person, and provide support for victims and survivors
This session will include time for questions.
This session will include time for questions.
Through the NWG Network’s work, Sheila will talk about the emerging themes and trends practitioners are considering with them, information on the latest resources and toolkits available and how the NWG can you your develop and improve your response to children exploited in the UK.
There will also be an exploration of next steps following the final report from the IICSA.
This session will include time for questions.
- Exploring good practice and lessons learnt from dealing with cases of exploitation and abuse, as well as those involving children at risk
- Sharing guidance for police colleagues across the country and reflecting on what more can be done to prevent and address abuse and exploitation
- Advising how to embed recommendations and research by the IICSA into police work and responses to organised networks perpetuating abuse, and how police can work with other local and national partners to ensure a robust system of prevention and prosecution
- Updates on improving data collection and communication with victims across the system
This session will include time for questions.
Learn more about the work of the National Crime Agency and their partnerships with national and international agencies to prevent and address child sexual exploitation.
This session will include time for questions.
Following a brief introduction, panellists will explore the key discussion points below. Delegates will be invited to raise questions and comments throughout for the panel to respond to.
- Reflecting on efforts by national and international policymakers and private companies in putting structures in place to prevent and tackle child abuse online
- Exploring the next steps in innovation following the announcement of the winners of the Government’s Safety Tech Challenge Fund
- Sharing insights from joint-working strategies to end online exploitation and how to ensure children and young people’s views, and an understanding of how they use the internet, are embedded into these
- Considering the short- and long- term effects of online abuse and exploitation on victims and survivors, and how child protection and support agencies can improve service provision to meet specific needs among different demographics and individual experiences
This session will provide the opportunity for participants to connect with peers working in different areas of tackling and preventing child sexual exploitation and learn more about the work happening in different services across the country.
In small groups, share your views on how partner agencies can work better together, and highlight good practice from your context while learning from other peers and experts.
This session will explore key themes from the Research in Practice Programme focusing on Tackling Child Exploitation, addressing areas including:
- Minoritised voices
- Data collection and usage
- Assessing risk
You will also learn more about the Practice Principles currently being developed with and for all bodies involved in responding to child exploitation and extra-familial harm, as commissioned by the Department for Education to improve service delivery.
This session will include time for questions.
This session will share insights into one local authority’s approach to creating a hub of co-located services to better support children and young people at risk of and experiencing exploitation and abuse.
- Learn how partnership-working across the Council seeks to divert and disrupt exploitation linked to county lines, gangs, weapon-carrying and drug-selling
- Understand how the newly created Exploitation Hub will embed the latest research and best practice from different areas and services to ensure the best approach possible to preventing and tackling exploitation
- Explore how social workers connect with national and local charities to enhance expertise and seek advice on complex cases
- Consider learnings from Bradford to ensure your services are also trauma-informed and psycho-educative
This session will include time for questions.
Following a brief introduction, panellists will explore the key discussion points below. Delegates will be invited to raise questions and comments throughout for the panel to respond to.
- Understanding the nuances needed in language used when supporting children and young people who have experienced different forms of abuse and exploitation
- Highlighting the need for improved information-sharing between agencies to reduce the burden on victims and survivors to re-tell their story
- Advising frontline practitioners and leaders across children’s services on small changes in their approach that could make a lasting positive difference on children and young people dealing with the trauma of abuse and/or exploitation
*Programme subject to change