TCE has some big news! By Dez Holmes, Anna Racher, April 1, 2022 Three years ago the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to support local areas to respond effectively to child exploitation and extra-familial harm. Specifically, the Programme was tasked with supporting the strategic response of local safeguarding partnerships, to offer support to colleagues in leadership roles and add Topics Covered:
Practice Principles for responding to child exploitation and extra-familial harm By Dez Holmes, Dr Helen Beckett, Nerys Anthony, Meeta Chaudhary, (TCE Programme Management Group), October 5, 2022 In March 2022, the TCE Programme was commissioned by the DfE to produce a set of national ‘Practice Principles’ intended to support local partnerships in responding to child exploitation and extra-familial harm. See this initial blog about the work. Since then, the Programme team has been busy consulting with professionals, children, young people and families, Topics Covered:
Developing Practice Principles for professionals responding to child exploitation and extra- familial harm: reflections on the consultation process By Raquel Vieth, March 20, 2023 I joined the TCE Programme in 2022 directly from my role as a Specialist Safeguarding Lead for a London borough, where I held responsibility for responses to child exploitation and extra-familial harm. I understand the challenges many professionals face in trying to respond to these forms of harm: the difficulties in supporting families in a Topics Covered:
‘Nothing about us without us’: The Young People’s Action Group’s reflections on TCE’s conference By Sarah Oyegoke, Bipin Khanal, Lewis Pummell, July 5, 2022 On the 16th of March, 2022, the TCE Support Programme delivered the final event of its 6-month 2021/22 Learning Programme, ‘Strategic Improvement in Child Exploitation and Extra-Familial Harm’. The in-person conference was an opportunity to share the insights and learning from three years of delivering a nation-wide programme, and was attended by over 50 professionals Topics Covered:
Beyond the victim/offender binary By Amanda Radley, January 25, 2022 Rebecca shares 10 top tips about starting multi-agency conversations about data and encourages attendance at learning event on 1/2/22. Topics Covered: Victim / Perpetrator
Clearer signals: moving towards purposeful multi-agency data sharing By Rebecca Godar, January 25, 2022 Rebecca shares 10 top tips about starting multi-agency conversations about data and encourages attendance at learning event on 1/2/22. Topics Covered: Data & IntelligenceLeadershipOrganisational CultureStrategy
Delivery Team Reflection – Part 1 – Children and Young People’s Voice thematic project By Dr Isabelle Brodie, January 8, 2022 The last few months have been very busy for the TCE Support Programme’s Children and Young People’s Voice strand, as we’ve tried to explore further the issues that emerged from our Twitter conversations during the autumn. We’ve held consultations with young people, interviewed sector experts, embarked on an action learning set and reviewed literature Topics Covered: Organisational CultureParticipationStrategyYoung person's voice
Delivery Team Reflection – Part 2 – Children and Young People’s Voice thematic project By Ellie Fairgrieve, January 7, 2022 Between November 2020 and February 2021, the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme has been exploring how children and young people’s views are included in strategic decision-making. To start with, we wanted to consider how we begin to define ‘hearing the voices of children and young people’. It has been confirmed that many different Topics Covered: Organisational CultureParticipationStrategyYoung person's voice
Delivery Team Reflection – Part 3 – Children and Young People’s Voice thematic project By Kirsche Walker, January 7, 2022 Kirsche Walker is a Research Assistant who undertook an internship on the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme between February and April 2021. The TCE Programme is a consortium of The Children’s Society, Research in Practice and the Safer Young Lives Centre based at the University of Bedfordshire. Her background is research in children Topics Covered: Organisational CultureParticipationStrategyYoung person's voice
Delivery Team Reflection – Part 4 – Children and Young People’s Voice thematic project By Kirsche Walker, January 7, 2022 As part of my time as an intern at the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support programme, two colleagues and I worked on one of the Programme priorities, Children and Young People’s Voice. The discussion was around how we at the Programme, through a consortium of different organisations, could focus on implementing youth voice. My Topics Covered: Organisational CultureParticipationStrategyYoung person's voice
Delivery Team Reflection – Good practice principles: hearing the voice of children and young people By Kirsche Walker, Ellie Fairgrieve, Dr Isabelle Brodie, January 7, 2022 Underpinning our participation principles to the TCE Joining the Dots framework Joining the Dots (JtD) is a framework developed by the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme based on learning from both programme delivery and the development and synthesis of evidence-informed resources. Its focus as a framework is on the ‘how’ of tackling child Topics Covered: Organisational CultureParticipationStrategyYoung person's voice
Delivery Team Reflection – Part 5 – Children and Young People’s Voice thematic project By Kirsche Walker, Ellie Fairgrieve, Dr Isabelle Brodie, January 7, 2022 What have we done? To date, we have talked to young people from three organisations. We’ve asked the same questions but the discussions have taken different directions. All the consultations have been really interesting, and have raised very important issues. We are really grateful for your help – thank you. What have you told Topics Covered: Organisational CultureParticipationStrategyYoung person's voice
Slowing down for stronger momentum in tackling child exploitation By Annie Hudson, November 25, 2021 Recently, Anna Racher and I co-facilitated a learning event as part of the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Learning Programme. It focused on Joining the Dots, TCE’s framework to help strategic leaders and senior managers tackle child exploitation more effectively. The Joining the Dots framework was developed through TCE’s work with local area partnerships around the Topics Covered: Child ExploitationPartnershipRelational approachStrategy
‘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
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)
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
‘It’s not them, it’s us’: the making of a child exploitation strategy By Ben Byrne, March 22, 2021 Ben is a TCE Delivery Partner whose career has seen him work and lead across a range of children and young people’s services. He is strategic lead for improvement and innovation in children’s services at London Councils. In this blog, he reflects on his experiences of working with partnerships in local areas to develop a strategic approach to child exploitation. Topics Covered: Child ExploitationMulti-AgencyPartnership
Reflections on bespoke support to tackle child exploitation: views from a local area By Leanne Dagger, Rachel Miller, February 26, 2021 Bespoke Support Projects (BSPs) are time-limited programmes for local areas and partnerships who are working together to respond to child exploitation and extra-familial harm, with the aim of accelerating or adding value to existing strategic activity. Here we take a moment to share the experiences so far of working with Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme from one local area. Topics Covered: Multi-AgencyRelational approachRestorative Practice / Approaches
Young People’s Voices in Strategic Decision Making – Diary Entry reflections by the Tackling Child Exploitation programme By Ellie Fairgrieve, Dr Isabelle Brodie, January 28, 2021 The Tackling Child Exploitation team have been working on a young people’s participation project for the last 3 months. This is a continuation of the diary entry blog recently shared by Isabelle Brodie and Ellie Fairgrieve and their reflections so far with some thought provoking questions. Topics Covered: Child ExploitationDisproportionalityInequalityParticipationYoung person's voice
