A CELCIS Emerging Insights Series Webinar:
Supporting the shared responsibility to identify and respond to child criminal exploitation now
Published in March, Shattered Lives, Stolen Futures, the report of the Jay Review of Criminally Exploited Children commissioned by Action for Children, starkly set out how the lives of children and their families are being blighted by exploitation across the UK and that a new system of prevention, a legal code, and support is required, designed with the explicit purpose of tackling the criminal exploitation of children.
This webinar provided an opportunity to highlight some of the complex challenges around multi-agency partnerships being able to identify and respond to the criminal exploitation of children and how to bring together existing knowledge, policy and legislation to better support ways to meet the recommendations of the review to protect all children.
We were joined by Sharon Maciver, National Director for Child Criminal Exploitation at Action for Children, Deanna Neilson, Director of Safeguarding at Action for Children and Donna McEwan, Practice Development Advisor, the Children and Young People's Centre for Justice. They considered how best to equip practitioners, parents, carers, families and communities to prevent, identify, protect against, and understand the risk of child criminal exploitation, and discussed the work underway on the development of a national framework for practice. The session was chaired by Dr Heather Ottaway, Head of Evidence and Innovation at CELCIS.
Wellbeing Support
Given the focus of this webinar, what is shared and discussed may be upsetting, so please take time out if you need to during the webinar and afterwards.
Trauma can affect us all. Please take the opportunity to turn your camera off at any time during the webinar or step away. If you need to speak to someone about how you are feeling, connect with someone you feel comfortable talking to or you can speak to people in confidence at Samaritans by calling 116 123 or Breathing Space 0800 83 85 87.
If you are a survivor of abuse, further information and support can be found here.
If you are worried that a child or young person may be at risk of harm, there are steps you can take to share this information. Guidance can be found at the following link: CELCIS Knowledge Bank | Worried About a Child or Young Person.
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Selected references
The Jay Review Report: https://media.actionforchildren.org.uk/documents/Shattered_Lives_Stolen_Futures_Report_-_Full_Report.pdf
Current practitioner guidance in Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/publications/practitioner-guidance-criminal-exploitation
The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice’s (CYCJ) scoping review of Child Criminal Exploitation: https://www.cycj.org.uk/resource/understanding-child-criminal-exploitation-in-scotland-a-scoping-report
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