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.
I think Child Abuse Review has gone from strength to strength and is of a consistently high standard. We have held numerous events that have been inspiring and enabling, such as the most recent Congresses and the Trainer's conference and award ceremony, the seminars to disseminate lessons from Serious Case Reviews. As resources get ever tighter, professionals have fewer and fewer opportunities to come together to exchange ideas and to learn together. We move more and more into silos because of work pressures. This is not the way to keep children safe. Association of Child Protection Professionals is needed to bring people concerned about child protection together to learn, to think, to shape policy and practice and to disseminate research. No-one else does this.
