MRC Webinar - Rethinking Our Child Protection Enquiries With Learning Disabled and Neurodiverse Children and Young People
This webinar is managed by our partner, MRC
Description
Communication and seeking children’s views is an essential part of child protection enquiries. Practice responses and approaches to this are framed and, in some cases, limited by what is understood about disability and about learning and neurodiverse needs.
These children face high risks of sexual abuse and exploitation in all areas, online, outside the home and placed away from home. They form a significant number of those facing some of the highest risks across all forms of harm, yet are less likely to be heard or receive responses which work for them. Sarah Goff’s professional doctoral research into this topic forms the basis of this webinar.
This webinar explores :
• barriers and enablers to effective communication during child protection enquiries.
• the right to be heard and have a voice. • barriers to access justice for all children.
• additional and specific issues for learning disabled and neurodiverse children to access justice.
• how to challenge disablist approaches inherent in current one size fits all practices.