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BASPCAN NATIONAL CONFERENCES - Leeds & Birmingham, UK

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Working with parents who have mental health problems: Understanding how to develop inclusive practices in child protection 

The Rose Bowl, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds LS1 3HB on MONDAY 27th JUNE 2016

Keynote speakers:

Kate Crawford, mother, voice hearer and expert-by-experience 

Dr Gail Coleman-Oluwabusola, consultant clinical psychologist

Olafare Oluwabusola, father and expert-by-experience

Siobhan Beckwith, alongside speakers from Mothers Apart project, Kirklees

Clare Shaw, educationalist, writer and mother

Tamsin Walker, mother, activist, educationalist and illustrator 


Experts by experiences and the practitioners who work with them talk about child protection from the perspective of parents and children who have gone through mental health and safeguarding systems. Parents share their own experiences of abuse and neglect; and their experiences of having serious mental health problems including hearing voices/ seeing visions, being suicidal and using self-harm. They provide insight into what it is like to experience having children removed, living apart from their children and about the fear of having their children removed. They draw on their different identities to talk about how professional understandings about race, gender and sexuality, for example, significantly impact on how mothers and fathers are made sense of in child protection. Children's testimony will also be shared. The aim is to draw on lived-experience to inform the development of sensitive and inclusive safeguarding practices that respond appropriately to the diverse needs of children who live with parents who have mental health problems.

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 assessments, conduct investigations, provide placements or offer support, counselling or therapy.

Book on line at http://www.baspcan.org.uk/booking.php

 

To celebrate the occasion of 25 years of the Journal BASPCAN is holding a one day event: Evidence-Informed Practice, Practice-Informed Research

18th November 2016 - Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham

We are announcing a Call for Abstracts on the themes: CSE; Neglect; Domestic Violence and Translating research into practice.  Each parallel session will include one invited keynote lecture, a number of short presentations from submitted abstracts, and a plenary discussion.  We have confirmation from Professor Marian Brandon, University of East Anglia and Professor Jenny Pearce, University of Bedfordshire for the keynote lectures on the themed sessions of Neglect and Child Sexual Exploitation respectively.

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation or a poster at the conference within one of the four key themes.

The closing date for submission of abstracts is Thursday 30 June 2016 and successful notifications will be made by Sunday 31 July 2016.

As the conference promises to be a flagship event in celebration of the ongoing success of Child Abuse Review and should you decide to not submit a paper for consideration, we do hope that you will still attend and encourage colleagues to do likewise. Earlybird bookings opened 3 May and registration at the discounted cost is strongly recommended.

To register your interest email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Or book on line at http://www.baspcan.org.uk/booking.php  

This day will include the BASPCAN 35th AGM

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