{"id":347,"date":"2024-11-29T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/?p=347"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:00:54","slug":"centre-for-child-protection-ccp-receives-2024-esrc-societal-impact-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/2024\/11\/29\/centre-for-child-protection-ccp-receives-2024-esrc-societal-impact-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre for Child Protection (CCP) receives 2024 ESRC Societal Impact prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Centre for Child Protection (CCP) receives 2024 ESRC Societal Impact prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An interactive simulation training programme developed by the\u00a0University of Kent\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/centre-for-child-protection\">Centre for Child Protection<\/a>\u00a0(CCP) in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.police.uk\/\">Kent Police<\/a>\u00a0has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/news\/esrc-announces-its-2024-celebrating-impact-prize-winners\/\">recognised in the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Prize 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prize-winning team was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/school-of-social-sciences\/people\/1970\/green-tracee\">Dr Tracee Green<\/a>, Head of CCP and a Core Member of iCSS, with the following two other contributing members:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/school-of-social-sciences\/people\/2861\/kosaraju-aravinda\">Dr Aravinda Kosaraju<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Child Protection of CCP and an Associate Member of iCSS, and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/school-of-social-sciences\/people\/3491\/soutar-emma\">Emma Soutar<\/a>, Training Officer in child exploitation at CCP and Educator for CCP&#8217;s MOOC on \u2018Effective communication with vulnerable children\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This innovative programme, known as \u2018Robyn and Molly\u2019, was developed in partnership with\u00a0Kent Police\u00a0to foster a trauma-informed approach within police responses to girls with lived experience of child sexual exploitation (GLE-CSE), aiding in the disruption of violence against women and girls. A successful pilot of the programme has so far trained 77 police officers, improving their confidence and understanding in conducting child-focused, trauma-informed investigations of child sexual exploitation, which has been linked to higher prosecution rates. Additionally, evidence shows that the training has reduced victim-blaming language in officers\u2019 case notes for up to six months afterward.<\/p>\n<p>CCP first started working with Kent Police on the project in early 2022 and went on to secure funding from the ESRC\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/opportunity\/partner-with-the-police-to-tackle-violence-against-women-and-girls\/\"><em>Partner with police to tackle violence against women and girls<\/em><\/a>\u2019\u00a0fund later that year which enabled them to develop their knowledge exchange and partnership further. They are now using additional impact funding provided by the University to develop a training video and website in advance of rolling the programme out nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/people\/1970\">Dr Tracee Green<\/a> said: \u201c<em>We are delighted that our new \u2018Robyn and Molly\u2019 interactive simulation training programme was the runner-up in the Outstanding Societal Impact category for the ESRC Impact Prize 2024. This collaborative project between the Centre for Child Protection and Kent Police has brought about a significant transformation in local policing, fostering a trauma-informed approach, particularly in cases of child sexual exploitation. By strengthening empathy, understanding, and a victim-centred focus into everyday policing practice, this project has improved the support and protection of vulnerable children which is linked to improved prosecution outcomes. As we prepare for a national rollout of this new training programme, this cultural shift is set to enrich how law enforcement agencies across the country handle complex cases, supporting a compassionate and effective justice system.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xpNQs2d-MTo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>A video created by the ESRC focussing on the prize-winning work of CCP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The project builds on CCP\u2019s 10+ years of creating research-informed immersive \u2018serious game\u2019 simulation training tools targeting child protection issues. These have been disseminated in over 90 countries to over 11,000 practitioners, directly benefitting 500,000 young people.<\/p>\n<p>The ESRC Impact Prize 2024 awards were announced on Wednesday 20 November at the Royal Society in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre for Child Protection (CCP) receives 2024 ESRC Societal Impact prize An interactive simulation training programme developed by the\u00a0University of Kent\u2019s Centre for Child Protection\u00a0(CCP) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/2024\/11\/29\/centre-for-child-protection-ccp-receives-2024-esrc-societal-impact-prize\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81794,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139963],"tags":[1083,19090,14,159246,57952,283104,222920,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cyber-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}