2022 sees the Centre for Child Protection (CCP) celebrate its tenth anniversary. CCP is marking the milestone with a webinar series in the autumn term entitled ‘Critical Conversations in Child Protection’ which ends with a celebratory, on campus, public event on Wednesday 9 November.
This celebration is part of the Law, Society and Social Justice (LSSJ) Division’s ‘Social Justice: Celebrating Collaboration & Impact’ Week (7-11 Nov 2022) and aims to set the CCP’s agenda for the next decade. It will also reveal the winner of CCP’s first rendition of the “Collaboration Award 2022: Celebrating Outstanding Multidisciplinary Working.”
CCP was established in October 2012 and aims to get to the heart of child protection training by using innovative ideas and the latest technology. CCP consists of a team of experts in the field of child protection with diverse areas of research, interests and practice experiences. They use contemporary research with cutting-edge child protection simulations to deliver an online, multi-professional and international Advanced Child Protection MA, as well as delivering award-winning continuing professional development (CPD) programmes for inter-disciplinary child protection professionals.
Critical Conversations in Child Protection: A Webinar Series
The Centre for Child Protection’s (CCP) five-part webinar series is aimed at facilitating learning from the latest research, practice knowledge and theory around safeguarding children and young people.
The first webinar begins on 21 September with an informative topic on the relationship dynamics between parents and social workers. The series closes on 2 November with an exploration into how simulations create safe spaces to learn and “practise” practice. Tag us @UniKentCCP and follow the conversation at #CriticalConversations.
Please visit the CCP’s website where you can read each of the synopses and register your place on the webinars.
Collaboration Award 2022: celebrating outstanding multidisciplinary working
The Centre for Child Protection (CCP) is introducing an award for child protection professionals engaged in outstanding collaborative work across disciplines.
Strong multi-disciplinary collaboration is essential in child safeguarding work and duties to cooperate between agencies to keep children safe is enshrined in legislation. Concern with multidisciplinary collaboration is routinely raised as a concern in Serious Case Reviews/Child Practice Reviews and highlighted as a key area for further development and learning. CCP works within a diverse multi-disciplinary population of child protection professionals and regularly hears good examples of strong multi-agency practices that should be recognised and celebrated alongside the promotion of learning from good practice to promote effective multi-disciplinary working.
We want to hear your narratives of good collaborative practices across disciplines within the child protection settings and applaud the good work being undertaken!
Submissions sought from:
- Child protection workers engaged in creative, effective, and collaborative practices across disciplines.
Judging/submission criteria
- 500-word (maximum) submission outlining either a specific account OR a sustained process/ system demonstrating outstanding multi-disciplinary practice.
- Must include an account of work between at least two separate disciplines (e.g., police and social care; education and health, third sector organisations, social care and health, etc.)
- Impact of the multi-disciplinary collaboration should be clearly identified.
- Details of those engaged with the services must be completely anonymised so that those in receipt of services are not identifiable.
- Permission for entry from all inter-disciplinary collaborators is required.
- Examples from national and international child protection collaborations will be reviewed and considered.
Award
- £500 prize
- The winning team’s work will be promoted on the CCP’s website and social media platforms.
- They will be invited to contribute to a webinar outlining the inter-disciplinary work they have undertaken in order to celebrate and promote good practice and learning opportunities amongst the child protection community.
- The winning submission will be featured on our website and promoted amongst CCP’s multi-disciplinary communities to disseminate good practice examples.
Additional Details
- Submissions must be made by Monday 3rd October at 4.00pm.
- Entries will be judged by a multi-disciplinary panel of independent and impartial adjudicators.
- The winner will be announced on Wednesday the 9th of November during a live event on Canterbury campus celebrating CCP’s 10-year anniversary.
- Candidates are encouraged to attend the public event; however, attendance is not mandatory.
Centre for Child Protection’s 10th anniversary event
The Centre for Child Protection (CCP) is delighted to invite you to an in-person, and live-streamed, celebratory event on Wednesday 9 November.
The day marks the coming together of child protection practitioners, alumni, collaborators, academic colleagues, and friends of CCP to celebrate their achievements. A keynote speech will be delivered by Professor Eileen Munro and the “Collaboration Award 2022: Celebrating Outstanding Multidisciplinary Working” will be announced at the evening’s gathering.
Register now for this unmissable event:
You can watch the event live stream via our YouTube link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkjMAQlKxCk
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