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- Evaluation, Training and Consultancy
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- Open letter to Westminster Government
- In memory of Lucie Moore
- About the Centre
- Blog
- Resources
- Short Films for Practice CSE Research
- Staff
- Publications
- Current Programmes and Projects
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- Learning Together: Involving children and youth in sexual abuse research
- Imagining Resistance
- Elevating ‘Our Voices’
- Exploring racial disparity in diversion from the youth justice system
- BLMK Integrated Care System Research and Innovation Hub
- Implementation and impact of the Practice Principles for responding to child exploitation and extra familial harm
- Journeys through the Justice System
- Young Researchers' Advisory Panel (YRAP)
- Completed Projects
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- Policy: CSE Guidance and Definitions
- The Alexi Project
- PACE evaluation
- ESRC Teenagers in Foster Care Series
- Learning about the Lighthouse
- Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC)
- NSPCC Mapping
- Our Voices
- Our Voices Too
- The 'Be Healthy' Project
- MsUnderstood: building local responses to peer on peer abuse
- Making Noise: Children’s Voices for Positive Change after Sexual Abuse
- Victim Support Adult Support Project
- FCASE Evaluation
- Evaluation of AVA project
- Nightwatch
- CSE and Policing Knowledge Hub
- Making Justice Work
- CSE Knowledge Transfer Project
- Policing Models and CSE
- ESRC Series: Teenagers in Foster Care
- Public Health England Literature Review
- Life skills, leadership, limitless potential:
- The Children’s Social Care Innovation programme
- Evaluation of Barnardo's Safe Accommodation Project
- Learning Action Partnership to Prevent CSE in Bulgaria
- Four films on gang associated sexual violence and exploitation
- Research into gang associated sexual exploitation and sexual violence
- Evaluation of Barnardo's Police Service of NI Pilot Missing Initiative
- Talking Child Sexual Exploitation: A study of Current Practice in London
- Being Heard Project
- Rotherham Project
- The RISE Learning Network
- Contextual Safeguarding Programme
- Faith sensitive RSE research
- Learning from the experts: Young people's perspectives on how we can support healthy child development after sexual abuse
- Our Voices III: challenging sexual violence against children
- MOPAC Girls and Young Women at Risk
- Young people receiving services for harm outside the home or exploitation: experiences of wider family members
- Evaluation of the Bedfordshire Violence and Exploitation Reduction Unit (VERU)
- Journeys through the Justice System Following Abuse
- Evaluation, Training and Consultancy
- Professional Doctorate and other Study Opportunities
- Open letter to Westminster Government
- In memory of Lucie Moore
Safer Young Lives is part of the Institute of Applied Social Research
Young Researchers' Advisory Panel (YRAP)
Project rationale
We are a group of young adults interested in improving things for young people affected by sexual violence. The YRAP support the Safer Young Lives Research Centre by helping to make sure young people are involved properly at every stage of the research process.
YRAP member
Find out more in this blogpost
Our approach
We are committed to:
- participatory practice
- young people's involvement in decision making
- trauma-informed participation grounded in reflective practice
- a learning culture
- collaborative practice
- challenging the marginalisation of young people’s voices
- improving and promoting safe and ethical involvement of young people in practice, policy and applied research
Aims
- To embed and develop the role and capacity of the YRAP within the SYLRC and UK-wide CSE and sexual violence research community
- To capture and disseminate evidence-based learning about young people’s participation in CSE practice and research
- To further develop the YRAP’s role in CSE research by implementing co-produced research on a research priority identified by young people.
Funding
The YRAP is currently funded by the Samworth Trust's Young Voices fund.
Conferences
YRAP members have presented at conferences in the UK and internationally to share our research with wider audiences.
- BASPCAN conference (Warwick, 2018)
- SVRI conference (Rio de Janeiro, 2018)
- IC/Alexi Project conference (2017) (see blogpost)
Resources
Through our work with other projects at the Safer Young Lives Research Centre, we have produced some useful resources, including these comic postcards created with the Alexi Project on 10 key principles for working with young people affected by CSE.