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Public Policy Exchange will be hosting a webinar on Improving Outcomes for Care Leavers: Ensuring a Successful Transition, at the Right Age, from Care to Independence which will take place on Thursday, June 29th 2023 between 9:30 AM — 1:00 PM.

Confirmed speakers:

• Clare Bracey & Chloe Grant, Director of Policy, Campaigns & Communications & Director of Services at Become
• Cllr Alistair Strathern, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People at Waltham Forest Council

Programme:

• Review existing government initiatives to support care leavers and discuss opportunities for further action
• Assess the impact of Covid-19 and the cost-of-living crisis on care-experienced young people and formulate strategies to address long-term effects
• Evaluate the appropriate age for young people to leave care, and how to ensure they leave care at the right age and are not forced out before they are ready
• Scrutinise how to establish effective partnerships with education, training and employment providers and support access to opportunities
• Determine how to support care leavers in accessing suitable accommodation
• Explore how government can ensure young people are able to meet their personal adviser before they leave care
• Learn examples of effective partnership working between local commissioners and voluntary organisations
• Analyse existing mental health support for care leavers and identify areas for improvement
• Examine the over-representation of care leavers in the criminal justice system and develop better preventative measures
• Explore opportunities to assist care leavers in accessing further education
• Assess how to improve training for welfare services frontline staff to better support care leavers in need
• Explore how to involve care leavers in the design and delivery of leaving care support
• Share best practice in improving engagement with harder to reach young people
• Discuss how to address regional inequalities in the level of support care leavers receive from local authorities

• Public Policy Exchange 15th Floor, Millbank Tower 21-24 Millbank London SW1P 4QP Tel : +44 (0) 203 137 8653  Fax: +44 (0)203 137 1459

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21 June 2023

Program

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Registration and participation fee

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For this workshop, there is a participation fee:
CEP members: € 25
non-CEP members: € 50
(An invoice will be sent after registration.)
The registration deadline is 7 June 2023.

Location

Centre for Legal Studies and Judicial Training, Barcelona

Often, youth who are involved with or at risk of being involved with the juvenile justice system have co-occurring life difficulties, being victims themselves or having disabilities that lead them to cross paths with the justice system at a particular moment and/or that have significant impacts on their emotional, mental, physical, and behavioural well-being. With this in mind, the question of how to respond appropriately to the offending of juveniles and young adults has emerged as a point of increased focus within international criminological research and criminal policy. Responding to juvenile offending is a unique policy and practice challenge.

Probation bodies and practitioners across Europe and worldwide together with other criminal justice professionals are among those on the frontline of preventing violence by supervising and providing specialized treatment and programmes, guidance and assistance to juveniles and young adults who committed a crime or an at risk of it.

With this workshop, CEP will bring together professionals from different European countries. The workshop will cover the topic from the perspective of probation and other criminal justice professionals including offenders and victims. During this workshop, we will discuss what are the effective and efficient ways of working with juveniles and young adult who have offended, which programmes are used to prevent juveniles from being involved with crimes, support the treatment process, among others. A World Café session will bring together smaller groups of participants to discuss and share knowledge and experience from their jurisdictions. Thus, it will support mutual learning as one of the core skills necessary for further professional development of themselves and their organisations.

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a new Trends & issues paper on domestic violence offending by outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG) members.

• Forty percent of OMCG members in New South Wales had been proceeded against for a domestic violence offence in the last 10 years.
• OMCG members were twice as likely to have been proceeded against for domestic violence offences as the wider male offending population.
• Domestic violence offending by OMCG members was more harmful and charges were less likely to result in a guilty outcome.

Read Outlaw motorcycle gangs and domestic violence

Thursday, June 15th 2023

Public Policy Exchange will be hosting a webinar on Tackling Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Expanding and Improving the Criminal Justice Response to a Growing Problem which will take place on Thursday, June 15th 2023 between 9:30 AM — 1:00 PM.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Dr Tirion Havard, Associate Professor at the Institute of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University
• Jessica Eagelton, Policy and Public Affairs Manager at Refuge
• Zahra Awaiz-Bilal, Senior Associate at Bolt Burdon Kemp LLP
• Fay Maxted OBE, Chief Executive Officer at The Survivors Trust
• Dr Brandon Sparks, Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Kingston University London
• Claire Bloor, Chief Executive Officer at Somerset & Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support (SARSAS)
• Srijani Roy & Sumaya Mohamed, Partnership and Evaluation Worker & Participation and Inclusion Worker at London Black Women’s Project

Programme:

• Analyse existing legislation surrounding image-based sexual abuse and discuss opportunities for further legislative reform
• Discuss the Law Commission’s recommendations for protecting victims of intimate image abuse
• Assess the current state of the Online Safety Bill and Victims Bill and their likely impact in tackling image-based sexual abuse and protecting victims
• Understand and tackle links between image-based sexual abuse and other forms of domestic abuse
• Examine measures to strengthen the response of law enforcement agencies and raise awareness of revenge porn within the police
• Assess the impact of Covid-19 on incidences of image-based sexual abuse and explore strategies to mitigate these effects
• Address anonymity-related issues and ensure victims are able to identify and report crimes easily
• Understand how to support victims of revenge porn, provide legal advice, and streamline access to counselling services
• Scrutinise the role for social media companies and internet service providers in developing robust measures to accelerate the removal of revenge porn
• Investigate the responsibility of media groups in sensitively reporting on revenge porn cases
• Discuss ways in which schools can engage with young people to promote respect, strengthen understanding of consent, and outline the risks associated with sharing intimate material
• Discuss parental awareness of online risks, equipping guardians with the knowledge, skills and confidence to exercise control and protect children online
• Share examples of effective partnership working between local authorities, police, schools and community groups in developing innovative safeguarding solutions

VSE’s Annual Conference will take place at the H4 Conference Center in Berlin, between 7-9 June, 2023 as a hybrid event; we hope to welcome participants from around the world, both in-person and online. This is one of the global victim support community’s largest, most influential events, where victim-related challenges are given solutions, where tomorrow’s support practices are launched today, and where, together, we highlight the potential of our victim support world. This is your chance to network with frontline victim support workers, policymakers, law enforcement professionals, technology providers, academics, journalists, and civil society activists: to accelerate your service, your product, or your ideas that will benefit victims of crime. 2023 – with the upcoming revision of the 2012 Victims’ Rights Directive and other EU legislative changes – is a crucial year for victims’ rights. In light of this, conference discussions will form the basis of our strategic vision for the next decade, and will provide us with actions that will allow us to maintain our vital role in safeguarding victims’ rights and fundamental freedoms. This year’s theme – driven by an increase in crimes against politicians and journalists, extremism, terrorism and hate crimes, as well as attempts to stifle free speech – focuses on the interconnection of fundamental freedoms and victims policy. Day one will see us explore crimes against democracy in an everchanging criminal environment: how stakeholders struggle to keep up with the challenges created by emerging crimes; and the challenges faced by victims of crimes against democracy. For the first time, day two will be dedicated to the work of law enforcement agencies with victims; specifically, balancing investigative work with respect for victims’ fundamental rights, and providing a secure social environment with developing a victim-sensitive trustworthy police service. On day three, discussion will focus on supporting vulnerable populations in the midst of conflict and how scaling up aid might address fragility, conflict, and violence. At a time of great uncertainty, when fundamental democratic rights and issues of civil and minority rights are at stake across many sectors of global society, we gather together to ask a simple question: Where to next? Join us in Berlin and experience our world in a new light. More Info at: VSE 2023 Annual Conference.