Around a third of child sexual abuse is by other children or young people (Hackett, 2014). Educational settings play a key role in identifying and preventing harmful sexual behaviour. However, this can be difficult to manage without adversely affecting the education of both the child and young person that has experienced the abuse and the child who has displayed the behaviour. This episode will help you to understand: the issues schools, colleges and academies are currently seeing and why there’s an increase in sexualised behaviour in young people what healthy, problematic and harmful behaviours are and how you can respond appropriately  how children and young people are affected, including those who display sexualised behaviour  what you can do to balance needs so that safeguarding is prioritised without affecting education. The NPSCC would like to thank Academy Transformation Trust and Ormiston Academies Trust for sharing their expertise and helping us develop our series on harmful sexual behaviour. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Fiona Barber has been a Children’s Service Practitioner at the NSPCC since 2010, delivering services that involves the assessment and treatment of children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour and who have been affected by sexual abuse. She has background in providing support to children and families in the field of social work and therapeutic care in residential work. In 2014, Fiona joined the National Clinical Assessment Team (NCATS), a service for treating young high-risk harmful sexual behaviour. Pat Branigan is a Development and Impact Manager for NSPCC’s Children’s Services. He leads the NSPCC’s response to child sexual abuse with a focus on preventing harmful sexual behaviour displayed by children and young people. In addition to this, he’s an anthropologist with a background in public health and has led research into sensitive sexual health topics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  Lucy Dawes started out as a primary school teacher in mainstream provision in 2007, teaching across Key Stage 2. In 2012, she moved to her current school which is a SEMH Provision where she supports children who have social, emotional or mental health needs identified on their Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). She is now the Assistant Principal and Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Co-ordinator and Designated Safeguarding Lead. Jacqui Ferris has worked in education for 25 years and is currently part of the leadership team at a secondary academy which serves a community with higher than average levels of deprivation. As a Senior Assistant Principal, she leads on behaviour, attendance and safeguarding and liaises regularly with agencies including social care, the police and family services. She is focused on working in the best interests of children and serves to maximise their educational opportunities and life chances. 📚 Related resources > Read our blog on understanding children’s sexual behaviour > Take a course for managing sexualised behaviour in primary and secondary schools > Refer anyone up to the age of 21 who has displayed harmful sexual behaviour to our NCATS service Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

The NSPCC developed Love Life in partnership with Dr. El Stannage and Connecting Youth Culture for young people with learning difficulties or special educational needs. The films and resources help support adults in starting conversations with young people aged 11 to 25 about topics such as feelings, privacy and boundaries, relationships and online safety. Listen to our episode to find out: why and how the films and resources were developed how the resources can be delivered  the benefits these resources provide for young people with learning disabilities  Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Helen Westerman is joint acting Head of the Safeguarding in Communities team at the NSPCC and has been working at the charity for the past 13 years. She is also the Local Campaigns Manager in the North of England, running local and regional campaigns in partnership with health, social care, police, education and voluntary sector agencies which aim to safeguard children and young people. Elanor Stannage has a PhD in Arts in Mental Health and has worked as a theatre practitioner, director, writer, and producer for over a decade. This involves creating projects and performances with marginalised communities and specialising in the areas of mental health and learning difficulties. She has also developed and worked with Connecting Youth Culture on Fuse Theatre - an inclusive youth theatre for over 10 years - which has helped inspire the concept for Love Life. 📚 Related resources > Access our Love Life resources > Read more about safeguarding children with SEND > Hear about our study into safeguarding disabled children from sexual abuse > Read our blog on exploring emotions and relationships with young people with SEND Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

Listen to this week’s episode to learn about: the Steps to Safety programme, including the research behind the service and its development process what the outcomes were from the feasibility study and what we learnt from the service how practitioners assessed parents, delivered sessions and modules and used Video Interaction Guidance (VIG)  the challenges practitioners encountered whilst implementing the pilot programme  how children’s voices were considered at each stage to ensure the service was delivered safely. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Nicola McConnell is a Senior Evaluation Officer within the NSPCC’s Evidence Team who has over 20 years of experience in evaluating health and social care services for children and families, including training and supporting others to undertake this work. She has researched and published a range of evaluation reports across different topic areas such as child protection, domestic abuse and preventing child abuse. Roberta Neill is a qualified social worker and Children’s Services Practitioner working at the NSPCC’s Belfast Service Centre. During her time at NSPCC she has delivered domestic abuse services including DART and Steps to Safety as well as a number of different sexual abuse services. She has also been delivering a Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) service since 2011 across Northern Ireland. Paula Telford is a qualified social worker with over 40 years’ experience in both delivering services and managing teams. She has largely worked in child protection, especially sexual abuse and in mental health. She is currently a Development and Impact Manager at NSPCC and led on the Steps to Safety Service among others. Paula is working with a team of colleagues to take forward the learning from Steps to Safety into other services. 📚 Related resources > Discover how to recognise, respond and prevent domestic abuse happening to a child > Learn more about what early intervention services are and the benefits of early help Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

Joining us for this episode, Sarah discusses: our report findings including the key issues for parents and carers the need for accessible relationships and sex education for children and young people with disabilities how parents and carers can work with schools to provide children with consistent messages around relationships and sex education involving children, young people and their parents and carers in the development of services and approaches to preventing sexual abuse Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Sarah Goff is Safeguarding Disabled Children Services Manager at the Ann Craft Trust. She carries out research; delivers training to agencies and local safeguarding children partnerships; and, provides consultancy to organisations about safeguarding disabled children. Her recent work has focused on seeking the views of disabled children and young people placed away from home; the experiences of deaf and disabled children and young people facing domestic abuse and child sexual exploitation; and, developing training to support practitioners in keeping children safe. 📚 Related resources > Read more about safeguarding children and young people with SEND > Download our resources for young people aged 11 to 25 with learning disabilities > Browse our PANTS guides for children with learning disabilities > Read more about how you can protect children from sexual abuse Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

Tune into our episode for more about: the impact PANTS has had since it launched in 2012 having conversations around PANTS and embedding the messages into daily life how local safeguarding boards, parents, schools and local communities are helping to raise awareness of the campaign what children have said about the PANTS campaign and future developments to materials and resources. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Ally Sultana is the Local Campaigns Manager for the NSPCC covering the East and West Midlands and is involved in keeping children and young people safe from all forms of abuse, including child sexual exploitation and online risks. She has played a pivotal role in the NSPCC’s PANTS campaign - working with hundreds of parents and professionals to help safeguard children from abuse. 📚 Related resources > Download our PANTS teaching resources for schools > Find out more about Talk PANTS for parents and carers Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

In this episode, we speak to Leila Canay, one of Stoke’s Children Services Practitioners about:  what evaluation activities are currently being run in Stoke  how the initiative has invited change and developed over time working with the community and partners establishing professional and community partnerships, including embracing collaboration and co-creation how young people can be involved in influencing and informing Together for Childhood in their local area.  Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Leila Canay is a Children’s Services Practitioner at the NSPCC’s Stoke Service Centre and a qualified social worker. She has a background in delivering child sexual abuse services, including Letting the Future In (LTFI) and Turn the Page (TTP). She is currently seconded into the role of Community Engagement Officer for Together for Childhood in Stoke. 📚 Related resources > Find out more about Together for Childhood Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

In this episode, our contributors discuss: the role and responsibilities of a charity trustee the key to good governance in a charity the importance of complying with legislation and guidance around keeping children safe  top tips to ensure charity trustees and managers are working well and playing an active role in safeguarding. This series was carried out as part a partnership led by NCVO, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Chris Cloke was the Head of Safeguarding in Communities at the NSPCC for over thirty years.  He has a huge wealth of experience and knowledge in safeguarding, particularly within the voluntary and community sector where he has been a trustee and advisor to several voluntary groups. He has been a member of and worked closely with a number of local safeguarding children boards and was chair of the Anti-Bullying Alliance for many years. Cate Meredith has been working for the NSPCC for 10 years as a Senior Consultant in our Safeguarding in Communities team. She continues to lend her expertise to organisations in the voluntary and community sector to ensure their safeguarding responsibilities are supported, understood and met, so that children and young people are safe. Kathy Evans joined Children England in 2010 as Deputy Chief Executive and she became CEO in April 2013. During her career Kathy has been the Chair of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, a trustee of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, a member of the ACMD Hidden Harm group and DCSF Care Matters advisory group. She was also consultant to the Police Foundation and Justice, devising potential alternatives to Youth Courts, to support the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour. 📚 Related resources > Find out more about safeguarding in faith communities > Find out more about safeguarding children and young people as a charity trustee Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

We are almost reaching the end of our series on safeguarding children and young people within local communities. Tune into this week’s episode to find out more about: the role faith-based communities and groups have in children and young people’s lives why it’s essential groups and communities understand their safeguarding responsibilities how to address safeguarding challenges and develop a safeguarding culture that works alongside cultural beliefs, values and customs the importance in listening to children and young people and ensuring children always feel listened to. These episodes were produced as part of a partnership led by NCVO, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Cate Meredith has been working for the NSPCC for 10 years as a Senior Consultant in our Safeguarding in Communities team. She continues to lend her expertise to organisations in the voluntary and community sector to ensure their safeguarding responsibilities are supported, understood and met, so that children and young people are safe. Mike Williams has been working in evaluation for 20 years and joined the NSPCC in 2007. During this time, he has evaluated a range of initiatives relating to the prevention of child sexual abuse which includes working with the Somali community in East London and more recently the NSPCC’s child sexual exploitation programme, Protect & Respect. Shirley Maginley is the NSPCC’s Senior Consultant for Faith and Minority Ethnic Communities. She works across communities to support and promote good practice in keeping children safe, facilitate learning and develop safeguarding initiatives that reflect cultural and ethnic diversity. 📚 Related resources > Find out more about safeguarding in faith communities Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

In this podcast episode, you’ll learn about: good safeguarding practices for schools the barriers children can face when talking about their experiences of abuse managing relationships with parents  supporting students and staff and promoting positive mental health   how to work with other organisations and statutory services in the community to ensure pupils feel safe and supported. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Kay Joel is a Senior Consultant at the NSPCC who works closely with schools to provide external consultancy. This includes undertaking safeguarding policy audits and visiting schools to verify safeguarding practices. She has also worked for over 25 years as a qualified teacher in primary and special education. Our guest speaker, Helen, is the parent of a child who is in year one and provides us with an insight into what she has experienced as a parent. 📚 Related resources > Take our child protection online course for schools > Safeguarding responsibilities of schools in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales > Read the updated statutory guidance on Keeping children safe in education by the DfE > Discover what makes an effective anti-bullying policy Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

Our host Chris Cloke and Gawain Griffiths, a Website Supervisor for the NSPCC discuss: how to run online services safely and manage an online presence effectively adopting professional and personal life boundaries online, particularly, with social media and email accounts the impact of bullying and how to prevent it online and respond appropriately  who organisations can go to for resources, guidelines, templates and support what children and young people tell Childline about keeping safe online. These episodes were produced as part of a partnership led by NCVO, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Chris Cloke was the Head of Safeguarding in Communities at the NSPCC for over thirty years.  He has a huge wealth of experience and knowledge in safeguarding, particularly within the voluntary and community sector where he has been a trustee and advisor to several voluntary groups. He has been a member of and worked closely with a number of local safeguarding children boards and was chair of the Anti-Bullying Alliance for many years. Gawain Griffiths is a Website Supervisor for the NSPCC and focuses on content development on the Childline website. Gawain has worked at the NSPCC for nine years and has developed a wide range of online resources to help keep children and young people safe in the online and offline world. 📚 Related resources > View our safeguarding resources for voluntary and community groups > Learn more about online safety Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

Through this episode, you’ll find out more about: the similarities, differences and challenges in safeguarding adults and children  how organisations working with mixed-age groups can safeguard children and adults in their care the importance of separate policies and procedures for adults and children safer recruitment and changing organisational culture so that safeguarding is a priority the support and resources available to mixed-age group organisations. These episodes were produced as part of a partnership led by NCVO, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Chris Cloke was the Head of Safeguarding in Communities at the NSPCC for over thirty years.  He has a huge wealth of experience and knowledge in safeguarding, particularly within the voluntary and community sector where he has been a trustee and advisor to several voluntary groups. He has been a member of and worked closely with a number of local safeguarding children boards and was chair of the Anti-Bullying Alliance for many years. Sarah Stanley is the Education and Development Co-ordinator for Brass Bands England and has created a safeguarding training course for its members with the help and guidance of the NSPCC. She now delivers this training to bands across the country. Lisa Curtis is the Safeguarding Adults at Risk Manager and Deputy CEO of the Ann Craft Trust and has worked on various projects including the provision and development of services for adults with learning disabilities. She has continued to influence safeguarding and the delivery of quality services to vulnerable adults. 📚 Related resources > View our safeguarding resources for voluntary and community groups Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

This summer, we are releasing a compilation of episodes on key topics related to safeguarding children and young people within your community.   Learn more about: building a safer culture in your organisation how to deal with and respond to concerns about a young person or adult making the nominated lead role visible to children, staff and parents so they know who to go to for support training and development needs, including supervision and support for nominated leads the importance of establishing multi-agency relationships. These episodes were produced as part of a partnership led by NCVO, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Helen Munn is the Head of Online Learning at the NSPCC and is responsible for the organisation’s elearning courses and our podcast programme. Prior to joining the NSPCC, she held a similar role at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Cate Meredith has been working for the NSPCC for 10 years as a Senior Consultant in our Safeguarding in Communities team. She shares her expertise with organisations in the voluntary and community sector to ensure their safeguarding responsibilities are supported, understood and met so that children and young people are kept safe. Trupti Kavia is Head of Family Services for Home-Start in Barnet, Brent, Enfield and Harrow and has worked with the family support organisation for 15 years delivering efficient and effective services. As a Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO), Trupti is responsible for ensuring that safeguarding procedures are followed and staff and volunteers receive ongoing safeguarding training and support. 📚 Related resources > View our safeguarding resources for voluntary and community groups Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

In this episode, we focus on: advice, tips and guidance on safeguarding to get you started common challenges organisations face when addressing safeguarding issues bringing organisations up to speed with current legislation the need for organisations to tailor policies and procedures keeping communication channels open between children and organisations. These podcasts were produced as part of a partnership led by NCVO, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Chris Cloke was the Head of Safeguarding in Communities at the NSPCC for over thirty years.  He has a huge wealth of experience and knowledge in safeguarding, particularly within the voluntary and community sector where he has been a trustee and advisor to several voluntary groups. He has been a member of and worked closely with a number of local safeguarding children boards and was chair of the Anti-Bullying Alliance for many years. Cate Meredith has been working for the NSPCC for 10 years as a Senior Consultant in our Safeguarding in Communities team. She continues to lend her expertise to organisations in the voluntary and community sector to ensure their safeguarding responsibilities are supported, understood and met, so that children and young people are safe.  Heidi Bradley is a Club Support Manager for England Athletics and leads on the development of safeguarding resources. She also sits on the NSPCC’s National Advisory Group for the voluntary and community sector. 📚 Related resources > View our safeguarding resources for voluntary and community groups > Browse our introductory safeguarding and child protection elearning courses Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

The lead author of the report, Holly Bentley, a Senior Information Specialist at the NSPCC speaks about:  why we chose to focus on online safety and online abuse this year where we sourced the data from  how we collaborated with experts who have an insight into the world of online safety the key findings and main conclusions drawn from the report  how our surveys gave children a safe space to talk about their experiences. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Holly Bentley is a Senior Information Specialist at the NSPCC leading on the organisation’s use of statistics and data. Holly has worked at the NSPCC for eight years and has managed the compilation and delivery of the ‘How safe are our children?’ report since 2013. Prior to working at the NSPCC, she was a librarian at the Guardian. 📚 Related resources and further reading > Read the full How safe are our children? 2019 report > Get an overview of data on abuse of adolescents in our 2020 report > Find out more about preventing online abuse and harm > Read a summary of risk factors and learning for improving practice around online harm and abuse > Take a look at the NSPCC helplines report about online safety Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

Tune into the podcast to listen to our experts discuss: what professionals should consider when working with military families how the child’s voice was incorporated into our evaluation activities safeguarding and child protection issues faced by military-connected children parental resilience, social connections and emotional development key findings and recommendations from our service evaluation report. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Nicola McConnell is a Senior Evaluation Officer within the NSPCC’s Evidence Team who has over 20 years of experience in evaluating health and social care services for children and families, including training and supporting others to undertake this work. She has researched and published a range of evaluations across different topic areas such as child protection, domestic abuse and preventing child abuse as well as recently completed an evaluation of NSPCC’s early help services to military families. Vicky Wainwright has worked as the Team Manager at the NSPCC’s Service Centre in Tidworth for the last three years where she has supported practitioners in delivering direct services to the local community. She is a qualified social worker who has previously worked within local authority safeguarding and child protection teams and has personal experience of the military as her husband is in the RAF. 📚 Related resources > Read our military families evaluation report to learn more about our key findings > Find out more about how early help/intervention services can reduce risk factors Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

This episode features two of our Senior Consultants at the NSPCC, Donya Pourzand and Craig Keady, who discuss the importance of safer recruitment in educational institutions.  They explore:   how schools, colleges and academies can recruit safely  what can go wrong when a safer recruitment process isn’t followed  examples of high-level profile cases that have put education in the spotlight for the wrong reasons the common errors made by educational institutions during recruitment processes why training is key to bringing safer recruitment statutory guidance to life the importance of including the child’s voice in recruitment. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Craig Keady is a Senior Consultant for Education at NSPCC. He has worked extensively in the education sector and has experience in varied roles including safeguarding, leadership and management, special educational needs and inclusion in schools, multi-academy trusts. Donya Pourzand is a Senior Consultant with the NSPCC Consultancy Service specialising in HR safeguarding. She has over 11 years of experience in HR and consultancy roles across the public and private sectors and now works on a consultative basis with schools and external organisations to explore ways to improve their HR practice for children and young people. 📚 Related resources > Find out more about safer recruitment policies, vetting, disclosure and barring checks and managing allegations of abuse > Get bespoke face-to-face training sessions on safer recruitment in education or take control of your learning with our online course > Read our four top tips on how you can start incorporating safer practices in your recruitment processes Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

We talk to the NSPCC’s Senior Educational Consultant, Kay Joel, about the following: the importance of having anti-bullying policies and procedures  why schools need an anti-bullying ethos approach how policies and procedures have changed over the years what makes an effective anti-bullying policy and procedure where to go for further tips and advice on bullying. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speaker Kay Joel is a Senior Consultant at the NSPCC who works closely with schools to provide external consultancy. This includes undertaking safeguarding policy audits and visiting schools to verify safeguarding practices. She has also worked for over 25 years as a qualified teacher in primary and special education. 📚 Related resources > Read more about how you can protect children from bullying and cyberbullying > Download a range of specialist training and resources aimed at teachers, schools and colleges > Use our free online tool to assess your current safeguarding procedures Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

Speak out Stay safe is our free safeguarding service that we’ve been running in primary schools since 2011. The programme is delivered by specially trained staff and volunteers with the help of our Speak out Stay Safe mascot, Buddy the speech bubble. Pupils are taught in a lively, memorable and child-friendly way. Joining us in this podcast, we have Rose Bray, NSPCC’s Reach Development Project Manager for the NSPCC’s Schools Service, Karen Squillino who leads on our direct work with schools, and Katie, a parent whose son has taken part in the programme. This podcast explores:  the scale of the programme and its delivery in schools  a real life example of how the service has benefitted a parent and their child how the child’s voice is kept at centre of the programme challenges around reaching and accessing schools next steps for the Speak out Stay safe service. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Karen Squillino has a lead role in the development of the NSPCC’s Speak out Stay safe programme and is a registered social worker who has 28 years of experience in child protection and safeguarding. Rose Bray is the Reach Development Project Manager for the Schools Service at the NSPCC. Her role focuses on ensuring the Speak out Stay safe programme reaches as many schools and children as possible. Rose is also a volunteer for the Childline service. 📚 Related resources > Learn more about Speak out Stay safe Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

The NSPCC runs two services that support parents with their mental health, Pregnancy in Mind (PiM) and Baby Steps. In our fifth podcast, we speak with Louise Harrington, Development and Impact Manager and Victoria Joel (Tori), Implementation Manager about preventative mental health services and perinatal educational programmes.  Find out why parents might be referred to these types of services, how they engage with families to provide the right support and what provisions are currently available to parents outside of the NSPCC. We end the podcast with a discussion about how the child is kept at the centre of the programmes and how this is managed in cases where babies are yet to be born. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Louise Harrington is a Development and Impact Manager at NSPCC and works on developing Pregnancy in Mind, amongst other services. Louise’s background and expertise lies in evaluation, research and service development in the field of children, families and communities, with a specific focus on early intervention and preventative approaches within the early years. Victoria Joel is a trained midwife who works with vulnerable families; in particular, her work has focused on attachment-based interventions and reflective functioning. Victoria is the Implementation Manager for Baby Steps at the NSPCC and seeks out new partners to adopt and deliver Baby Steps and supports organisations that use the service. 📚 Related resources > Learn how Pregnancy in Mind is supporting parents' mental health during pregnancy > Learn more about parental mental health problems Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

The Lighthouse is a multi-agency service for children and young people in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington who have experienced any form of sexual abuse, including exploitation. At The Lighthouse, the child is at the centre, to make sure they have a safe place to recover at their own pace and rebuild their lives. The Lighthouse (Child House) is led by University College London Hospitals in partnership with NSPCC and Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and will be piloted for two years. In this podcast episode Ali is joined by two members of the Lighthouse team: Emma Harewood, Service Manager and Deborah Hodes, Community Paediatrician and Health Lead, along with Jon Brown, Head of Development and Impact at the NSPCC. Emma, Deborah and Jon provide an insight into how The Lighthouse was established, discussing how the NSPCC along with four core funders (the Home Office, NHS England, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Department for Education) helped shape it to become the first service of its kind in the UK. We hear about the range of services children can access under one roof from therapeutic and medical services to support with police investigations, the court system and counselling for them and their family. They also talk about how children are consulted at every step as well as the future plans for The Lighthouse service. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Jon Brown is the Head of Development and Impact at NSPCC. He is a qualified social worker and has been responsible for setting up and managing a range of sexual abuse services ranging from therapeutic services for child victims, services for children and young people with sexually harmful behaviour and services for adult sex offenders. Emma Harewood is the Delivery and Service Manager at The Lighthouse, leading the delivery of the first UK ‘Child House’ pilot. Prior to this Emma trained as a paediatric dietitian, before moving into system leadership and change management. For the last 10 years she has held various director level roles in health providers and clinical commissioning groups, leading change in health and social care with a focus on integrated services to support children and adults. Dr Deborah Hodes is the paediatric lead for The Lighthouse. Deborah has been a Consultant Community Paediatrician since 1990. She has vast clinical, teaching, strategic and research experience in all aspects of child abuse and neglect and has presented and published her work widely. In 2014, she started the only paediatric UK clinic for children and young people with female genital mutilation (FGM). 📚 Related resources > Find out more about The Lighthouse > Learn more about how to protect children from sexual abuse Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

In this podcast episode Ali talks to four members of the team: Mandy John-Baptiste, Service head of CTAC, Martina Murray, Assistant team manager, and Charlotte Jamieson and Sylvia Vuong who are social workers. Mandy, Martina, Charlotte and Sylvia provide us with an overview of CTAC's work and explain why children and young people are trafficked and the ways in which they are exploited. They also discuss the “tricks” child traffickers employ to control and isolate children and young people and what professionals should do if they suspect a child might have been trafficked. We also hear about the child’s voice and the part this plays in shaping the essential service CTAC provides. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Mandy John-Baptiste is the Service Head of CTAC and leads on CTAC's strategic partnerships with the Home Office Immigration Criminal Financial Investigation and Enforcement, National Crime Agency. Martina Murray, Assistant team manager, and Charlotte Jamieson are qualified social workers and provide case consultation, advice and training to a range of professionals who come into contact with children where there is a concern for trafficking. Charlotte also leads on CTAC's work to improve cross border responses between the UK and Calais, France with Refugee Youth Service. Sylvia Vuong is a social worker and led on CTAC's work to improve training with health professionals and developed a partnership with NHS Trusts to deliver modern slavery training to frontline health professionals in safeguarding trafficked children. 📚 Related resources > Find out more about protecting children from trafficking and modern slavery Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

In this podcast episode, Ali talks to four members of the Protect and Respect team: Holly Gordon, Impact and Development Manager, Laura Gaffor and Amy Stelfox, Child Service Practitioners and Mike Williams, Senior Evaluation Officer. Holly, Laura, Amy and Mike discuss the Protect and Respect service, which offers two types of support: awareness raising group work and a support and protection service. They talk about the issues surrounding CSE and how best to work with children and young people who have been or are at risk of exploitation. They also discuss the findings of a recent evaluation of Protect and Respect and how the insight from the service evaluation, research and the voices of practitioners, children and young people has been used to make improvements to the service delivery. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. 💬 About the speakers Laura Gaffor and Amy Stelfox are Child Service Practitioners who work directly with young people, delivering the Protect and Respect service. They have a range of experience working with professionals, young people and their families who are affected by CSE. Holly Gordon is Impact and Development Manager for Protect and Respect. She led on the development of Protect and Respect in North Wales and supported the development of the services. Mike Williams is Senior Evaluation Officer and has worked on Protect and Respect for the last five years. He has evaluated a range of initiatives for the NSPCC relating to the prevention of child sexual abuse. 📚 Related resources > Read our evaluation of the Protect and Respect service Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros