Invisible Children and Parents: Understanding Suicide and Self-Harm in Work with Vulnerable Clients, November 6th 2015, Manchester, UK

Keynote speakers and discussants include:

Professor Marcia Worrell, Head of School of Psychology, Social Work and Human Sciences, University of West London

Lynn Perry, Director of Children’s Services Barnardo’s West

Plus Children’s Service Managers from Barnardo’s Safer Futures teams:

Lynda Regan - child sexual abuse recovery team; Nic Dunn - child sexual exploitation team

Steve Bore- sexually harmful behaviour team; Abby Ogier - domestic abuse team

Dr Sam Warner, Clinical Supervisor for Barnardo’s Safer Futures teams, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Looked-after-Children team.

Children and young people who self-harm present a major challenge for safeguarding services and numerous serious case reviews have identified many areas for improvement in respect of children and young people who are at risk of suicide.

Barnardos’ Safer Futures is a long established service in the North West of England that helps children and young people who are involved in risky behaviours move forward to safer lifestyles. In this conference we draw on the collective experience of Safer Futures to highlight innovative practice in working with children, young people and parents whose risk to themselves is sometimes invisible, very often hidden and too frequently misunderstood.

Experts from the fields of child sexual abuse recovery; child sexual exploitation, sexually harmful behaviour, domestic abuse and looked-after-children share their knowledge of current theory, research and personal practice to explain how to support and safeguard children and young people who use self-harm to cope, communicate and/ or as a means to end life.

This day will be relevant to practitioners at all levels, including their supervisors and managers, in all key agencies and organisations working in the safeguarding children arena. This includes practitioners who provide risk assessments, conduct investigations, provide placements or offer support, counselling and therapy.

Go to http://www.baspcan.org.uk/events-national.php and scroll down the page.