Improving outcomes for victims and survivors, including children.

Background

Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.

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Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK

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    Funded by: ESRC

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    The project aims to develop a child abuse measure for observation and evaluation, which can help improve outcomes for child abuse victims and survivors.

  • Child Sexual Exploitation and Girls: An Interactive Training Tool for Child Protection Professionals

    This project will undertake a collaborative knowledge exchange between the Centre for Child Protection (CCP) and Kent Police (KP). They will create, apply, and evaluate a pilot training tool to support police officers in...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Kent

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on creating a training tool for police officers to work with girls who have experienced child sexual exploitation, which is partially relevant to improving outcomes for victims and survivors.

  • 2PS - Prevent & Protect Through Support

    There are no changes to the project scope:- The European Commission’s latest strategy for fighting child sexual abuse highlights a harsh reality that, globally, we are ‘losing the battle’ against online child sexual abu...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF DERBY

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses the issue of child sexual abuse and exploitation, providing preventive measures and support.

  • 2PS - Prevent & Protect Through Support

    The European Commission’s latest strategy for fighting child sexual abuse highlights a harsh reality that, globally, we are ‘losing the battle’ against online child sexual abuse and exploitation (OCSEA). Various projects...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND

  • 2PS - Prevent & Protect Through Support

    The European Commission’s latest strategy for fighting child sexual abuse highlights a harsh reality that, globally, we are ‘losing the battle’ against online child sexual abuse and exploitation (OCSAE). Various projects...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: SCOTTISH POLICE AUTHORITY

  • Rethinking child protection strategy: evaluating research findings and numeric data to challenge whether current intervention strategy is justified.

    Conventional thinking in relation to child protection and safeguarding takes as an axiom that child abuse can be detected and treated, and largely eradicated through robust assessment. Conclusions from public inquiries a...

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  • Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on criminal justice journeys of adult and child survivors of sexual abuse, rape, and sexual assault

    Over 150,000 sexual offences were recorded by the police in the year ending March 2020 (ONS, 2020), and there are indications that lockdown increased some sexual offences (e.g. online-facilitated abuse, sexual abuse perp...

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    Lead research organisation: Coventry University

  • GCRF_NF39: COVID-19 Child Abuse Prevention Emergency Response

    The COVID-19 Parenting project will reach 57 million families in DAC countries during the COVID epidemic, with evidence-based resources to prevent violence against children and reduce parenting stress. DAC countries ar...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: University of Oxford

  • Crimes of child sexual exploitation in England - A socio-legal project promoting effective approaches to investigation and prosecution.

    The 2012 national inquiry into child sexual exploitation (CSE) in gangs and groups by the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England reported 2409 'confirmed victims' of child sexual exploitation in either gangs o...

    Funded by: ESRC

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    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically focuses on crimes of child sexual exploitation, which aligns with the question about improving outcomes for victims and survivors, including children. The authors have expertise in this area.

  • An ABC of CSA: development and business growth of CSA survivor-led toolkit

    Viv Gordon Company (VGC) is the leading UK child sexual abuse (CSA) survivor-led arts and social justice organisation. Our work is a creative campaign to increase voice, visibility, community & leadership by, for and...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: VIV GORDON COMPANY CIC

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