Delivered by Lin Sands NWG Police and Justice Lead

About Lin:

Lin has more than 30 years of safeguarding/investigation experience gained from an extensive career in the police force.  

Lin is a highly qualified Safeguarding Subject Expert, Expert Witness, Advocate, and nationally renowned Safeguarding Trainer/Consultant. In addition, she is a highly regarded Independent Investigator/Risk Assessor, Coach and Mentor.

Lin is a former Regional Practice Co-Ordinator with the National Counter Trafficking Service (Barnardos) where she undertook a variety of roles including Independent Child Trafficking Guardian, Facilitator/Modern Slavery Act Advisor/Risk Assessor.

Lin also holds a Master’s Degree in Disability Studies; her dissertation focused on the subject of access to justice & particularly the use of Special Measures for ‘Vulnerable Witnesses/Defendants’, within the Criminal Justice process.

Interrupting and Disrupting Exploitation of Children and Young Adults

When Children and Young Adults are targeted, groomed and exploited, they rarely talk about what has happened to them for a variety of reasons and this results in Safeguarding partners wondering how they will be able to effectively safeguard them.

Frequently there is too much emphasis placed upon the victim/survivor to provide a detailed disclosure and an absence of such leads to a fear that, “little, if anything, can be done”.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business and all partners have a responsibility to feel confident and competent to discuss a community partnership approach to designing and implementing effective disruption plans. This conversation should inform and underpin every safety plan and risk assessment, for every child/young adult experiencing, or at risk of exploitation.

This year, we are very excited to announce that our “Interrupting and Disrupting the Exploitation of Children and Young Adults” Training has been refreshed and is being relaunched.

The 3-hour session will include;

• An NRM module
• Links to our Disruption toolkit that tackles Child and Adult Exploitation
• References to our newly developing Disruption Case library
• Real-life and recent case examples of different types of Modern Slavery and Trafficking
• An input from Police Officers who have ‘hands-on’ experience of applying for and being granted, Slavery and Trafficking Risk and Protection Orders.
• How mapping tools and professional curiosity will fill intelligence gaps and enable exploitation to be investigated, in the absence of a disclosure.

The session will provide you with an opportunity to develop your competence, knowledge and skills concerning disrupting and interrupting exploitation.

The session will be facilitated by Lin Sands – NWG Network Police and Justice Lead. Lin will support and enable you to learn and hear about national developing practices, and the creative strategies and tactics that have been used to positively and effectively impact safeguarding practice.

This session is available to book through NWG’s Eventbrite page but can also be commissioned for your organisation or service. If you would like to discuss how this session can support your working practice, please get in touch with [email protected]