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Writes Professor Jane Reeves, Director Centre for Child Protection, University of Kent
2018 has definitely been a busy year for the Centre for Child Protection team. Links have been developed with the University of South Australia and the South Australia Government through the introduction of Rosie 2 – our serious game on neglect and complex family dynamics.
Professor Reeves was invited and gave public lectures in Hong Kong and Taiwan in April on varying aspects of child protection and the Centre’s serious game simulations.
The team are working with the University in Copenhagen who are looking to translate some of the scenes in Rosie 2 into Danish so that students who have to currently use the simulation in English and learn in their native language, improving their learning and development.
Also in Europe, following a visit in February 2019 to the Centre by staff from the Anne Frank Institute in Germany, the teams are now collaborating to produce a simulation looking at the grooming of young people for radicalisation.
Following a meeting set up by the Internationalisation Office between Professor Reeves and staff at the Faculty of Education, the University of Trier are hoping to integrate some of the Centre for Child Protection’s training simulations into their curriculum.
Following a presentation by Professor Reeves at the European Commission in June 2018, the Centre has been invited to present at the the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) event in Lisbon in November 2018. Set up by the European Commission as an EU-wide umbrella network of practitioners engaged to prevent and counter radicalisation to violent extremism, the RAN event is an opportunity to show the research and tools provided by the Centre for Child Protection.
A similar presentation took place in Hannover in June 2018 By Prof Reeves, subsequently the Centre has started to work with LaSP (Landesstelle Schulpsychologie und Schulpsychologisches Krisenmanagement) on grooming education for young people in schools in the North Rhine/Westphalia region of Germany.
Finally, the Centre for Child Protection team are developing an output from the Erasmus+ project. Titled, “The Family on the Move Across Europe” is an interactive teaching and learning tool built in Articulate Software following the journey of a family with four children as they move across Europe from Syria to Germany. The tool will be available on the Child Hub Terre des Hommes website from September 2018.