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- Contextual Safeguarding Programme
- Faith sensitive RSE research
- Imagining Resistance
- Learning Together: Involving children and youth in sexual abuse research
- Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE)
- Our Voices III: challenging sexual violence against children
- Learning from the experts: Young people's perspectives on how we can support healthy child development after sexual abuse
- Small steps can make a big difference (Albania)
- UNESCO Network: Preventing Sexual Violence Against Children
- Young Researchers' Advisory Panel (YRAP)
- 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
- Evaluation, Training and Consultancy
- Professional Doctorate and other Study Opportunities
Safer Young Lives is part of the Institute of Applied Social Research
Learning Action Partnership to Prevent CSE in Bulgaria
Staff from the International Centre are working with the Bulgaria Family Planning Association to develop a 'learning action partnership' to prevent child sexual exploitation in Bulgaria.
Funded by the Oak Foundation the work is placing a particular focus on the prevention of CSE in the process of deinstitutionalisation.
For further information please contact Jenny Pearce jenny.pearce@beds.ac.uk
address
Safer Young Lives Research Centre
Institute of Applied Social Research
University of Bedfordshire
University Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK
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