Conference – Protecting our children: vulnerabilities to grooming

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Protecting our children: vulnerabilities to grooming
Woolf College, University of Kent, Canterbury
15 June 2017 09:45-16:15
Tickets £70 (student concessions £35)

Conference Programme

Chair: Sue Gower, Kent Safeguarding Children’s Board

Keynote Speaker: Professor David Shemmings, Centre for Child Protection, University of Kent: ‘Understanding Faith-based Abuse’

Keynote Speaker: Paul Rigby, University of Stirling: ‘Child Trafficking – The Socio-economics of grooming’ 

New from the Centre for Child Protection, University of Kent.

This conference will provide an introduction of the new child protection simulation on grooming for radicalisation ‘Maryam and Joe: Behind Closed Doors’. This will include a demonstration of the new training tool for use with professionals and young people, and there will also be the chance to view it at the exhibition stands and participate in a workshop.

Speakers include:

Nick Wilkinson, Kent County Council:
‘Prevent and Channel – the local context’

Aida Malovic, Tizard, University of Kent:
‘I’m trying my best, anyway’: The needs of young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who display harmful sexual behaviours.

Michelle McCarthy, Tizard, University of Kent:
‘Domestic Violent against women with learning disability by non-disabled partners’

Naomi Bannister, London Borough of Islington and
Carly Elias, The Children’s Society:
‘Grooming and exploitation: Do we really care?’

Claire Pascoe, Independent Social Worker:
‘Internally trafficked children: ‘hidden’ – or unseen?’

Interactive workshops:
In the afternoon there will be the opportunity to choose two interactive workshops. Details will follow and you will be sent a link to book your places prior to the conference.  Workshops will be booked on a first-come-first-served basis.

Email ccp@kent for more information or to book an exhibition stand.

best wishes

Karen Paine