Lunch and Learn
'Safeguarding Young People: Risk, Rights, Resilience and Relationships'
21st November 2023 - 12.00pm - 1.30pm
Speaker: Dez Holmes
Summary:
This session will offer an overview of key messages from the book of the same title, edited by Dez Holmes. It will propose that, in trying to address harms facing young people, there is a danger of focusing on risk without taking into account three other crucial factors relevant to a young person’s sense of safety: their rights, their relationships, and their resilience. Each chapter tries to explore a different facet of safeguarding young people, offering food for thought and inviting reflection and critical thinking. Complexity – even sometimes contradiction – is part of the context for working with young people.
Like the book, this session will draw on learning from research, practice wisdom and expertise from those with lived experience, recognising that different sources of knowledge offer complementary insights and there is no definitive ‘answer’ or ‘fix’.
| Ticket Type | Price | Cart |
|---|---|---|
| Members Rate - Lunch and Learn - Safeguarding Young People: Risk, Rights, Resilience and Relationships - 21st November 2023 | £0.00 | |
| Non Members Rate - Lunch and Learn - Safeguarding Young People: Risk, Rights, Resilience and Relationships - 21st November 2023 | £15.00 |
Dez Holmes is the Director of Research in Practice, a not-for-profit organisation that since 1996 has been supporting those who work with children, families and adults to use evidence in their practice and leadership.
Prior to this, Dez was the Programme Manager at C4EO responsible for Capacity Building. She previously worked in local government establishing and managing integrated early intervention services to families and previously managed multi-agency prevention and early intervention programmes (YISPs)
Dez has several years’ experience of training and workforce and leadership development; she is the Programme Director for the Practice Supervisor Development Programme. Her practice experience is largely within youth offending services and early help. She is particularly interested in adolescence, transitions, risk and participatory practice; Dez has led Research in Practice’s work on Adolescent / Transitional Safeguarding; she is the Programme Director for the Tackling Child Exploitation Programme and also chairs the Contextual Safeguarding UK Advisory Group
Dez chairs the Advisory Group for The Staff College, which develops leadership capacity across local authority children’s services; and is a member of the NICE Implementation Strategy Group, and sits on a number of Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) policy committees and on several research advisory boards. During 2021-22 Dez was a member of the Evidence Group, supporting the Review of Children’s Social Care, and is also a trustee of Family Action, a large charity providing practical, emotional and financial support to families who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation.
My membership is something I value as I work in academia, my knowledge and expertise is enhanced by the AoCPP community itself and the Child Abuse Review journal. I enjoy and receive great benefit from the opportunity to attend conference events and Congress to "tap into" cutting edge research and evidence of best practice nationally and internationally, all of which benefit the students on my teaching programmes and my own research and publications
