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Preventing Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

  • Christopher Cowan
  • 29 April 2024
  • Posted in: Healthcare, Management & Leadership, Education

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Thursday, 16 May 2024, Pendulum Hotel & Manchester Conference Centre

 

Loudmouth Education and Training is a theatre in education company that specialises in supporting children and young people around Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) and safeguarding. The company started in 1994 and has reached over 1 million children, young people, professionals and parents. Last year we delivered over 1,000 sessions on a wide range of topics wi…

  • child protection
  • child sex abuse
  • safeguarding children

Sleep Problems and Self-Harm at University

  • Michaela Pawley
  • 02 April 2024
  • Posted in: Healthcare, Management & Leadership, Education

We spend approximately one third of our life sleeping, or at least trying to (Aminoff et al., 2011), however little is understood about the functions of sleep. What is known is that sleep difficulties are associated with mental health problems across all ages (Baglioni et al., 2016) , and that more and more individuals worldwide are getting insufficient sleep (Roenneberg, 2013), particularly adolescents (Chattu et al., 2018). Adolescence is the most common developmental phase for the onset of me…

  • student choice
  • student satisfaction
  • students

How can ethical AI support efforts to safeguard our children?

  • Gavin Day
  • 18 March 2024
  • Posted in: Healthcare, Education, Planning & Development, Management & Leadership

How can ethical AI support efforts to safeguard our children?

Present safeguarding arrangements are largely manually driven, reactive and subjective. The result – Child Safeguarding failures: 40% are related to data silos, 41% related poor risk assessment (MacAlister, Independent Review of Children's Social Care 2022). Over the past five years a ground breaking ethical AI solution, CESIUM, has been co-designed and adopted by Lincolnshire Police. A validation of the solution in 2022 identified 1…

  • safeguarding
  • safeguarding children
  • safety
  • children