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This session will explore how the Care Act supports rather than obstructs responses to adult exploitation. It will focus on the importance of restoring autonomy where coercion undermines decision-making, recognising disguised compliance or apparent consent, use of legal options, balancing protection with empowerment and challenging victim blaming attitudes.

Allison Hulmes is a Welsh Romani social work academic and co-founder of the Romani & Traveller Social Work Association. Allison has been a social worker for 25 years and has practiced in adult safeguarding/deprivation of liberty safeguards and as a therapeutically trained social worker, with a focus on strengthening families. Allison is the Romani & Traveller Representative, International Federation of Social, and External Advisory Group member (Welsh Government), Anti-racist Wales Action Plan.

Operation Hydrant is a national policing programme designed to improve the police response to safeguarding children and investigating child sexual abuse. It coordinates intelligence, develops best‑practice guidance, provides learning and review capabilities, increases public and survivor confidence, and supports police forces and partners through national analysis, strategic liaison, and implementation of recommendations such as those from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

In just 60 minutes, attendees will:

Join the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies on 17 March for a step-by-step guide on how to successfully incorporate your Community Interest Company (CIC) online.

Take this opportunity to learn how to successfully complete an online CIC incorporation application from start to finish. There will also be an overview of Community Interest Companies provided, along with some guidance on preparing your Articles of Association and completing form CIC36. 

A one-day collaborative innovation experience exploring women’s health challenges

Join UK Black Tech for a Women’s Health Design Jam – a one-day, hands-on experience bringing together curious, creative, and mission-driven people to explore real-world challenges in women’s health.

This is open to anyone, and you don’t need a startup idea or prior entrepreneurial experience to participate. The design jam is all about learning, collaborating, and exploring how insight can lead to meaningful solutions.

Across the day, you’ll:

Gambling related harm impacts many families across the country, including in Greater Manchester. Often harms are identified too late or not at all, and people affected are left feeling alone and that they are to blame. Sadly hundreds of people take their lives every year because of gambling.

Chapter One prevention programmes provide information, training and support, formed and informed by people with lived experience.

The training will give participants knowledge, confidence, skills and resources to prevent gambling-related harms and support those affected.

The Ethical Property Foundation (EPF) is pleased to continue our 2026 webinar series. Do charities need property? As the UK’s leading property advice charity for the voluntary sector, we offer this free webinar to help charities and voluntary organisations make informed decisions about property.

In particular, this practical and reflective session will support you to think carefully about the role property plays in your work. It will also help you decide whether having premises genuinely adds value to your mission.

The Commu

This exhibition from Polonia Northern England uncovers the remarkable history of a Polish community (Polonia) deported and displaced during WWII. Through photographs, letters, and personal documents, it showcases experiences of forced deportation, war crimes, refuge, and significant contributions to Britain’s freedom. The exhibition also explores post-war resettlement in exile in Northern England and community efforts to maintain cultural identity whilst Poland was under communist rule.