£15.00
This combined Special Interest Group event brings together the Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) SIG and the Child Protection in Gypsy Roma and Traveller Communities SIG to strengthen collaborative learning, research, and practice.
This event introduces a Roma-specific Power and Control Wheel, created through collaborative, participatory research with Roma women and child protection practitioners. Throughout 2024/25, Roma adults shared their experiences of DVA to ensure the wheel reflects the lived realities of Roma communities and supports culturally grounded understanding of power and control.
The session highlights how community involvement shaped every stage of the research, with Roma voices steering the themes, language, and priorities of the tool. Participants will learn how the wheel reveals unique patterns of power, control, and community pressures, and how co-production enhances its accuracy. Â It also explores how services can apply this learning to challenge discrimination, improve responses, and build greater support with Roma victims and survivors.
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.
