SIG Group meeting - Children & Young People in Care and Care Experienced
Guest Speaker: Rebekah Pierre, BASW Professional Officer and Care Experienced person.
Rebekah is a care experienced and qualified social worker who has been actively involved in the appeal process of Article 39. She is passionate that 16 to 17 year olds within the care system should not be left vulnerable. She is keen to work with the AoCPP to raise the profile of 16-17 year olds, advocating for equity for all children within the care system, to help support and influence policy going forward. We look forward to hearing from Rebekah and debating this important area of challenge.
| Ticket Type | Price | Cart |
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| Non Member Ticket 15 June 2022 | £15.00 | |
| Members Ticket 15 June 2022 | £0.00 |
Rebekah Pierre is a care-experienced social worker and author, who currently works for the British Association of Social Workers. She has written extensively about the care system, featuring in The Guardian, The Independent, Radio 4 & others. Rebekah's lived experience is central to her campaign work; her peer-reviewed journal, 'Revisiting Diary Entries from Care: An Exposition of the Challenges of Unregulated Placement Settings', examines her childhood diary extracts from an autoethnographic perspective, linking lived experience to wider policy failures. She represented the #KeepCaringto18 campaign at Downing Street earlier this year and is passionate about equality of care for all children.
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.
