A complex challenge: tackling child exploitation and extra-familial harm. Event recordings from 16 March 2022. By (TCE Programme Management Group), December 6, 2022 These recordings were shown or recorded at the TCE Programme event on 16 March 2022. We share what we’ve learned and offer space to reflect together on responding to child exploitation and extra-familial harm. Introduction to the TCE Programme In this short introduction, Dez Holmes (Director of Research in Practice) shares the context, challenges, iterative Topics Covered: "Data & intelligence "Child ExploitationChild Sexual Exploitation (CSE)EvidenceParticipationPartnershipSafeguardingStrategySystems ChangeYoung 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
Child exploitation: definitions and language By Dr Isabelle Brodie, November 10, 2021 This page includes a briefing that summarises the key messages and a literature review on the definition and language of child exploitation, why it matters and strategic leaders’ implications. TCE hopes it provides a starting point for discussion, and there are some questions to help you reflect on how these issues influence safeguarding practice. Topics Covered: Child ExploitationDefinitionsLanguageRisks / risk taking
Strengths-based approaches to working with strategic leaders By Joseph Kiff, November 10, 2021 This discussion piece reflects on some useful approaches to strategic planning, and some common pitfalls. Topics Covered: LeadershipOrganisational CulturePartnershipStrengths Based Working
What do we really mean when we talk about effective partnership working? By Ellie Mendez-Sayer, October 12, 2021 This series of resources focuses on key issues and debates in the field of child exploitation and extra-familial harm, drawn from a series of expert interviews carried out by Ellie Mendez-Sayers, Research in Practice associate. Through the discussions with researchers and practitioners, who come from a range of fields and have different areas of expertise, Topics Covered: CommunityPartnershipProfessionalsRelational approachYoung person's voice
‘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
Bridging boundaries: young people, safeguarding and the criminal justice system By Ellie Mendez-Sayer, December 16, 2020 This series of resources is based on interviews with experts in the field of research, policy and practice with young people. Topics Covered: Child ExploitationSafeguardingVictim / PerpetratorYouth Justice
Data for Intelligence By Ellie Mendez-Sayer, December 16, 2020 This series of resources is based on interviews with experts in the field of research, policy and practice with young people. The interviews were undertaken by Ellie Mendez-Sayers, Research in Practice associate, and focused on key issues and debates in the field of child exploitation and extra-familial harm. Through these discussions with researchers and practitioners, who come from different fields and have different areas of expertise, we hope to bring to the fore the complexities of child exploitation and extra-familial harm, and to contribute to an understanding of the different perspectives that exist. For some topics, there was a high level of agreement; in others, more differences were apparent. We have tried to ensure that these differences in perspective have been clearly attributed. We are very grateful to all those who participated in the interviews, all of whom were extremely generous with their time and expertise. Topics Covered: Child ExploitationData & IntelligencePractice
Excluded, exploited, forgotten: Childhood criminal exploitation and school exclusions By Alex Temple, Just for Kids Law, August 1, 2020 This briefing paper provides key issues for strategic leads to consider in developing provisions that mitigate the risk that victims of exploitation will be excluded and protect the children most vulnerable to exploitation in the future. Topics Covered: Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)EducationSchool exclusionVulnerabilities