BOOKING FORM MAKING RESEARCH COUNT (UNIVERSITY OF YORK) SEMINAR
CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
Thursday 7TH March 2013 (Closing date 20 Feb 2013)
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MAKING RESEARCH COUNT
(University of York)
RESEARCH SEMINAR
CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES
Thursday 7th March 2013
11.30am – 4.00pm (Registration from 10.45am; lunch included)
Pavilion Hotel, Fulford, York
Keynote Speakers:
Margaret Melrose
Professor of Social Policy and Applied Social Research
Dr Helen Beckett
Research Fellow
Dr Lucie Shuker
Research Fellow
All from the Institute of Applied Social Research at the
University of Bedfordshire
Chaired by: Paul Dyson, Independent Social Worker
£75.00 to non MRC members
Free to nominated staff from Making Research Count
(University of York) member agencies. See booking form for details.
Who is it for?
This event is open to staff from local authorities and other public agencies, as well as voluntary sector organisations. It will be of interest to providers of children’s social work services, as well as those delivering community-based initiatives or who work with vulnerable children and young people. Representatives from education and the Police are also encouraged to attend as those with relevant responsibilities in housing-led organisations.
During the day, delegates will have the opportunity to reflect on what they have heard, and to discuss with researchers and peers the practical implications arising from a range of research projects.
Focus of the Research Seminar:
Child sexual exploitation
A research team based in the International Centre for Young People, Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking at the University of Bedfordshire has researched issues related to child sexual exploitation for approximately 15 years and has developed a considerable body of expertise in this field. Over this period this issue has risen up the political agenda and government guidance now requires that all LSCBs develop appropriate strategies to safeguard young people, target those responsible for exploiting them and raise community awareness of the issue to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and young people.
At this event:
Prof Melrose draws on a study of LSCB responses to child sexual exploitation that was conducted by a team at the University of Bedfordshire. The study found that a significant proportion of LSCBs were not implementing government guidance and further that confused understandings of the issues amongst some practitioners limited their ability to identify child sexual exploitation in practice.
Dr. Shuker considers the relationship between risk of exploitation and the care system, suggesting that safeguarding responses should not achieve short-term physical safety at the expense of relational and psychological security. She will draw on emerging findings from an evaluation of a 2 year DfE funded specialist foster care programme for sexually exploited and trafficked young people which is being delivered by Barnardos.
Dr. Beckett presents the interim findings of a large-scale study of gang associated sexual exploitation and sexual violence in England currently being undertaken by a team at the University of Bedfordshire. The study explores young people's experiences of sexual violence and exploitation within youth gangs, analysing these with reference to the 'rules' of the gang environment and the wider phenomenon of peer sexual violence.
Programme:
10.45 Registration and refreshments
11.30 Chair’s welcome
11.35 Practitioner Understandings of Sexual Exploitation
12.25 Group discussions
1.00 Feedback and panel response
1.15 Lunch
2.00 Sexual Exploitation in Gangs
2.40 Sexual Exploitation and Young People in Care
3.35 Group discussions
3.50 Panel reflections
4.00 Close
Making Research Count
Making Research Count (MRC) is a national research dissemination network based regionally in the social work departments of ten English Universities, all of whom have a proven track record in social work and social care research as well as providing social work education at qualifying and post- qualifying levels. Some 60 agencies throughout England are currently engaged in the network through subscribing to their closest MRC regional centre. Through a series of local conferences, seminars and workshops each MRC programme is engaged in:
o Dissemination of research from academics, practitioners, carers and users
o Promotion of knowledge-based practice to improve local services
o Encouragement of knowledge sharing and professional networking
o Supporting practitioners and managers to undertake research.
The Making Research Count (University of York) Team is:
Dr Martin Webber ( 01904 321203
Stephanie Lacey ( 01904 321207 email:
Jane Phythian, Administrator, Tel: 01904 321237
Department of Social Policy and Social Work
University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD
Voicemail Tel: 01904 321237
Email: Website: www.york.ac.uk/spsw/research/mrc