LEARNING FROM EXPERTS-BY-EXPERIENCE
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, 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
Evidence-Informed Practice, Practice-Informed Research
This one-day event celebrates the occasion of 25 years of the Journal BASPCAN.
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.
Keynote speakers: Prof. Marion Brandon; Prof. Jenny Pearce; Dr Stephanie Holt; Prof. Nicky Stanley; Prof. Margaret Lynch and Prof Kevin Browne
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 close 19 August 2016 and registration at the discounted cost is strongly recommended.
Book on line at http://www.baspcan.org.uk/booking.php
This day will include the BASPCAN 35th AGM
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