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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
Our Voices
Working together with children and young people
- Developing and supporting a pan-European network of youth advisors
- Supporting a number of youth-led activities that will explore the scale, nature, and impact of sexual violence
- Identifying opportunities and events for young people to share their work and views
Working together with projects
- Collaborating with projects to develop participatory work with children at risk of or affected by sexual violence
- Documenting learning on engaging with young people affected by sexual violence through participatory activities
Developing resources
- Developing a database of projects
- Creating a knowledge bank of resources, models and tools on young people's participation to prevent sexual violence against children
- Promoting learning and debate through online exchanges and workshops
For further information on this project see the Our Voices Programme - www.our-voices.org.uk or contact Claire Cody at claire.cody@beds.ac.uk
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