Safeguarding

This session explores the lived and learnt experiences of LGBTQ+ young people in sport, sharing insights and lessons that can be applied in other contexts outside of Sport.

Using over 35 years experience in the LGBTQ+ Youth Sector, Sally Carr will share the potential of Sport to safeguarding LGBTQ+ young people in school, club and community settings if done well.

Recognising Sport also has the potential to be sites of hostility and exclusion for LGBTQ+ young people, where safeguarding protections are neglected and harm can be caused.

Exploring the development of Growing Up: A Guide to Female Puberty for Autistic People, with a focus on how it supports understanding of personal boundaries, consent, and safe relationships. We will discuss the importance of accessible, autism-informed resources in CSE prevention, and how empowering autistic young people with clear, relatable information can build confidence and reduce vulnerability.


 

In this session, Adam will provide an overview of the County Lines model of drugs supply, the types of exploitation of children and vulnerable adults involved in County Lines, emerging themes and trends and resources that are available for safeguarding professionals.

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:

The Manchester Safeguarding Partnership (MSP) a

Manchester Safeguarding Partnership are excited to announce their first Joint Children's and Adults Forum in person.

This is a great opportunity to meet colleagues across Manchester working with children, adults and families.

The Joint Children’s and Adults’ Safeguarding Forum acts as a bridge between frontline multi‑agency practitioners and the strategic work of the Manchester Safeguarding Partnership Board.

Its aim is to bring together practitioners from across agencies in a safe environment where they can:

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