MRC Webinar - Social Work Responses to Child Sex Trafficking

Simon Kerss is a criminologist, and Honorary Fellow with the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He specialises in evaluating agency responses to VAWG and other forms of Serious Violence. He is also an Independent Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) Author, and Home Office-appointed DHR Reader.

For ten years, Simon was the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership Manager for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. He has also worked in a variety of roles across Children’s Services in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

In this webinar, Simon will :

• use recent research to explore social work responses to cases of Child Sex Trafficking.

• unpick barriers to such responses and make recommendations for enhanced future practice.