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Friday 17 March 2023 from 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Online
This workshop is ideal for foster carers, youth workers, PA’s, residential staff, and staff from the relevant voluntary sector.
The training session aims to demonstrate how developing trauma-responsive systems which are culturally informed, can help build resilience against all forms of exploitation with a focus on the radicalisation of looked-after young people.
The issue of looked-after children as potential recruits for extremist groups has been largely overlooked, despite the universal acknowledgement that looked-after children represent the most vulnerable of all demographics within society. Studies established that practitioners lacked basic awareness of radicalisation and extremism, the Prevent strategy, and the Channel programme.
It was discovered that practitioners were unsure of what constitutes the potential indicators of radicalisation, and how and to whom such concerns should be reported. It became apparent that radicalisation as a safeguarding and child protection issue has not been afforded a level of focus adequate and proportionate to the risk posed, and that other issues, namely child sexual exploitation.