Launching the Criminal Exploitation of Children (CEC) Framework for Practice

Summary: 

Reframing Exploitation, A Protective, Rights-Based Response Launch of the CEC Framework for Practice

Placing children’s rights and safety at the centre and challenging systems that criminalise instead of protect.

Join us for the launch of Scotland’s CEC Framework for Practice a new national resource developed by Action for Children and CYCJ, with funding from The Promise Partnership.

The Framework provides a shared language, clear principles, to help professionals identify, assess, and respond to the criminal exploitation of children. Grounded in existing Scottish legislation and guidance, it supports a protective, rights-upholding approach.

This webinar will:

• Introduce the Framework and its underpinning principles
• Launch a new e-learning module
• Outline training and implementation support for services

Open to all sectors working with children and young people from education and social work to health, justice, and community services.

Criminal exploitation is child abuse. It demands a child protection response. Let’s get it right, together.

Bios: 

Donna is a Practice Development Advisor at CYCJ with over 17 years’ experience in social work, specialising in justice, and supporting children in conflict with the law. She has led national work on developing rights-based, trauma-informed responses to serious harm, risk, and criminal exploitation. Donna played a key role in co-developing Scotland’s Criminal Exploitation of Children (CEC) Framework for Practice. She is passionate about reframing criminal exploitation as a child protection issue and ensuring children are supported, not criminalised.

Sharon Maciver is the UK Director of Criminal Exploitation at Action for Children. She has specialised in the area of criminal exploitation for the last five years supporting Action for Children’s Criminal Exploitation Intervention services across Scotland, England and Wales, as well as working to influence policy and systems change for criminally exploited children.

Relevant links:

The Criminal Exploitation of Children Framework for Practice - https://www.cycj.org.uk/resource/criminal-exploitation-of-children-cec-framework-for-practice/

The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) E-Learning info - https://www.cycj.org.uk/e-learning/

Action for Children: The Jay Review shattered Lives - https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/our-work-and-impact/policy-work-campaigns-and-research/policy-reports/the-jay-review-of-criminally-exploited-children/ 

"I don’t want to go down that road" report - https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/our-work-and-impact/policy-work-campaigns-and-research/policy-reports/the-harms-inflicted-on-criminally-exploited-children/

Nesha Dixon, Understanding Child Criminal Exploitation in Scotland: A Scoping Review - https://www.cycj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Understanding-Child-Criminal-Exploitation-in-Scotland.pdf

Important Info:

This webinar will be recorded and shared on the CYCJ website. Cameras and mics will be switched off to all attendees, only the speakers and organisers of the event will have their cameras on. If you have any questions throughout the webinar you will be able to add them into the chat and the speakers will try to answer as many as possible at the end.

All registered attendees will be contacted with team's link 24 hours before each session. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact cycj@strath.ac.uk.

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