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- Current Programmes and Projects
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- Contextual Safeguarding Programme
- Learning about the Lighthouse
- Faith sensitive RSE research
- Imagining Resistance
- Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE)
- Our Voices III
- 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
- 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
Staff
- Dr Debra Allnock Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Helen Beckett Director of the Centre
- Dr Lisa Bostock Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Silvie Bovarnick Research Fellow
- Dr Isabelle Brodie Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Claire Cody Senior Research Fellow
- Gayanthi Hapuarachchi Contextual Safeguarding Admin Coordinator
- Dr Julie Harris Evaluation Lead
- Sayma Khanom Research Administrator
- Joseph Kiff Research Assistant
- Hannah Millar Research Assistant
- Professor Jenny Pearce Founder and previous Director of the Centre
- Meegan Scipio Research Administrator
- Claire Soares Research Fellow
- Kirsche Walker Research Assistant
- Dr Camille Warrington Senior Research Fellow and Participation Lead
- Alice Yeo Head of Evidence, TCE Support Programme
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May 23, 2022

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May 18, 2022

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RT @Elsielrw: One of the wonderful young people in work with @uniofbedsSYLRC Youth Research Advisory Pannal has written a blog for the @C_S…
May 17, 2022

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May 12, 2022

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May 10, 2022

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May 09, 2022

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May 09, 2022

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The Youth Research Advisory Panel #YRAP spent this bank holiday weekend @Brathay in the #LakeDistrict. In person te… https://t.co/NrO85aIXsQ
May 03, 2022

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May 03, 2022