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NWG Learning and Development Event – Day 2 Summary
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Over the next few days we will continue to share lots of links to resources, useful documents, reports and other interesting items, so keep an eye out for those on our website, our round-up of events and social media.
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It’s not too late to register and join us for the next 4 days and it is possible to register at any time to see the recordings for the whole week.
Our first speaker today was
Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Project Dragons
Nuria spoke about social media grooming chats using trust-building talk. How groomers use communication as a manipulative tool and how children react to those messages.
This subject is so important when we consider the rise in numbers of children groomed online during the pandemic.
You can see through the texts how the language flips from sex chat to trust-building, and how pivoting the conversation from nice to nasty quick unbalances the child.
Two tools have been developed to provide technology to practitioners to help triage, scanning conversations and grooming tactics to support law enforcement.
Dragon Sheild is a multi-agency training platform and a scanning tool which are free to practitioners.
Nigel Jones/Katie Vaughan
The benefits of a health practitioner in a multi-agency team tackling child exploitation
Sharing the importance of having a health lead in teams is vital, some areas have a hub and spoke models which work equally as well. Including health is a challenge, health is made up of so many sectors that make engagement difficult.
Having a dedicated health lead allows a response to some of those challenges.
The survey showed health professionals didn’t feel confident in managing cases, creating uncertainty of what to do with concerns.
We do have a job description for a health coordinator for Coventry on our website.
The post is based in the School Nursing Service, but they are considering a move to the Safeguarding Team, but is co-located in the multi-agency team but needs careful planning before appointing and someone with a sexual health experience was helpful.
Access to the systems allows for a better assessment, and be able to see who is already working with a young person and allows practitioners outside health to ask for support to access services.
The data definitely supports the need for a co-located role
Susie Hargreaves
Tackling Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
https://www.iwf.org.uk/about-us/our-campaigns/
We’ve never been more connected than we are in today’s world.
The IWF is independent and not a law enforcement agent. Each year there is an increase in numbers, notably because there are more digital ways of sharing and more social media apps available.
72% of over 180K reports are self-generated images.
The UK hosts less than 1% of indecent images, other countries do not have the same commitment to remove the content of an indecent nature.
8/10 of reports showed self-generated images of 11 to 13yrs. Whilst there are some reports for boys, it is predominately reports of girls. It’s a 168 % increase in the figures from 2020.
There is a range of resources that can be shared in schools and youth provisions.
In the age group, 7 to 10-year-olds self-generated images are increasing alongside those who are 3 to 6-year-olds. There is an increase in sibling abuse, often happening in the family home without the knowledge of the family or carers.
Are we all promoting the right permissions and tools we can add to our devices?
Kev Murphy/Jo Aldridge
Safeguarding In Sport – A Work in Progress
The Safe to Play campaign utilises Augmented Reality (AR) technology as a new method of engaging parents whose children play sports. NWG has produced a short campaign video featuring a family scenario around sport and three short vignettes from a child, a parent and a sports coach relating to the story.
The Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts recognises clubs or providers in England who have demonstrated that they have reached and maintained good safeguarding standards. We encourage Governing Bodies, associations, organisations, and franchisers to register interest and support the Code and activity deliverers who can work towards attaining recognition along with clubs and individual instructors, coaches and teachers outside of a club structure.
Say Something if you See Something
This campaign has been designed specifically for the sports sector to help raise awareness of how abuse can occur through sport. Our campaign efforts are aimed at parents, coaches and children in order to help them understand what to look out for and how to respond to concerns.
Bystander Initiative – how to challenge sexist, homophobic, racist language when you hear it.
Training for grassroots sport and leisure coaches available.