Working in a Bespoke Support Project delivery team with the TCE Support Programme – Delivery Partner and Implementation Lead reflections By Amy Hurst, Ellie Fairgrieve, Nicky Hill, September 30, 2021 Working in a Bespoke Support Project delivery team with the TCE Support Programme – Delivery Partner and Implementation Lead reflections. As the TCE support programme commences its final round of Bespoke Support Projects (BSPs) we thought this would be a great opportunity to reflect on the experiences and key takeaways of Nicky Hill (one of Topics Covered: Organisational CulturePartnershipProfessionalsRelational approach
The Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme is delighted to launch a six-month programme of learning events. By Anna Racher, September 10, 2021 The learning that we have generated through this relationship with the sector is something we have previously shared through the TCE Microsite, but the volume and quality of TCE programme learning, we think, merits something a more substantive. Over the next six months the TCE programme will be sharing key insights through an online learning programme that explores complex ideas, holds space for conversation, encourages and supports reflection and enables local areas to learn from one another other. Topics Covered: Child ExploitationEvidenceLeadershipPeer supportWorkforce Development
‘County lines’, inequalities and young people’s rights: a moment of pause and reflection By Lauren Wroe, July 16, 2021 In this think piece, Dr Lauren Wroe draws on her research on the application and development ‘contextualised’ responses to extra-familial harm (EFH) in adolescence and challenges us to explore and reflect on how we use intelligence to identify, define and respond to vulnerability. Topics Covered: County LinesDisproportionalitySafeguardingYoung people
Thinking critically about expansion, integration & ‘joined up’ approaches to exploitation By Dez Holmes, March 24, 2021 On March 24th 2021, the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme hosted its fourth community of practice (CoP) event, attended by the TCE programme team, Delivery Partners and BSP alumni. The focus was on sharing key themes identified from two years of working with local areas delivering Bespoke Support Programmes. In this session, Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice, explores the systemic and structural factors in addressing child exploitation and extra-familial harm. Opening with questions on how to think critically about children and young Topics Covered: AssessmentLanguageRisks / risk takingVulnerabilities
Risk assessing child (sexual) exploitation By Helen Beckett, March 24, 2021 On March 24th 2021, the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme hosted its fourth community of practice (CoP) event, attended by the TCE programme team, Delivery Partners and BSP alumni. The focus was on sharing key themes identified from two years of working with local areas delivering Bespoke Support Programmes. In this session, Dr Helen Beckett, Director, Safer Young Lives Research Centre at the University of Bedfordshire, focuses on how we frame what we see in terms of child exploitation and extra familial harm: what are we seeing, what Topics Covered: AssessmentLanguageRisks / risk takingVulnerabilities
Community of Practice Day – 24 March 2021 On March 24th 2021, the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme hosted its fourth community of practice (CoP) event, attended by the TCE programme team, Delivery Partners and BSP alumni. The focus was on sharing key themes identified from two years of working with local areas delivering Bespoke Support Programmes. The CoP day featured a series of sessions, each consisting of a presentation, breakout discussion and bringing participants together for reflective conversations. Recordings of some of these presentations and links to the resources can be found on the asset cards below. Risk assessing child (sexual) exploitation By Helen Topics Covered:
Reflections: Opportunities for how a system shift in practices and policies would support improved safeguarding for child victims of exploitation and improved prosecutions of adult offenders who exploit them By Lucy Dacey, June 8, 2021 It is widely recognised that tackling, disrupting and, most importantly, prosecuting offences of modern slavery – specifically those linked to child criminal exploitation (CCE) – remains a significant challenge. Topics Covered: Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)Criminal justiceDisruptionModern SlaveryNational Referral Mechanism (NRM)
High support and high Challenge By Nerys Anthony, March 24, 2021 On March 24th 2021, the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme hosted its fourth community of practice (CoP) event, attended by the TCE programme team, Delivery Partners and BSP alumni. The focus was on sharing key themes identified from two years of working with local areas delivering Bespoke Support Programmes. In this session, Nerys Anthony, Director of National Programmes and Major Operations at The Children’s Society, brings together the thinking from the day and reflects on how to be an effective catalyst for change in Topics Covered: LeadershipOrganisational CultureProfessionalsResilience
Reflections from the TCE Support Programme: 12 lessons learnt from digital facilitation By Ellie Fairgrieve, Mairi-Anne MacDonald, May 12, 2021 Adapting to digital delivery – ten things the TCE programme have learnt from digital facilitation. Topics Covered: COVID-19
Tackling Child Exploitation Support Programme: What to expect from a Bespoke Support Project By Ellie Fairgrieve, Leanne Dagger, March 10, 2021 The Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme is often asked: ‘what is required of an individual/agency/partnership to engage in a Bespoke Support Project (BSP)? What are the time commitments and expectations? What might a BSP ‘look like’?’ In this blog, we try to answer these questions. Topics Covered: Child ExploitationMulti-AgencyPartnershipSystems Change
