In today's episode Steve Myers, Vice-Chair of the AoCPP, is speaking to Dr Rob Ewin about interview practices in policing. They'll be discussing how the specialism has evolved, the importance of continued research within the area, and the best practice all child protection and adult safeguarding professionals can take from it.

Dr Rob Ewin's route to his current role was neither quick nor easy, what started out as a community volunteer role, then turned into a Special Constable role which subsequently led him to undertake a foundation degree in Policing at the University of Cumbria. Soon after, Rob topped up his degree to eventually receive a BSc in Professional Policing, while simultaneously working to become a Police Officer at Cumbria Constabulary. Rob later joined the Criminal Investigation Department where he completed many successful cases, but through this, he continued to study - undertaking a few modules of a Master's degree, but ultimately undertaking a PhD looking at the complex problems facing vulnerable people. It is this balance between academic research and practical experience that has been a longstanding component of Dr Ewin's career and subsequently led him to his current role, T/ Detective Inspector and Head of Learning and Development for the Cumbria Constabulary. Rob now works on complex investigations including murder, rape and human trafficking, while supporting his Constabulary in their professional development - with a focus on facilitating evidence-based practice. But despite how his career has developed, he carries with him the lessons he learned within his first role, the value of difference, diversity, hardship and loss.

Steve Myers is the former Director of Social Sciences at the University of Salford, and a registered Social Worker with a background in child protection and youth justice. He has worked in both statutory and voluntary organisations and has been involved with the training of social workers in Higher Education for the past 25 years. Steve has researched and written about strengths-based and solution focused practice, and has a interest in working with violent behaviour including sexual violence.

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We started this podcast at the beginning of lockdown to support professionals continuing to work with vulnerable children, and families, under unprecedented circumstances.

With the goal of alleviating the pressure professionals are under, we’ve brought together leading experts within research and practice share their knowledge of the latest issues in child protection and adult safeguarding.

Two years later, we want to hear from YOU about what you would like to hear in upcoming episodes.

Whether it’s a particular topic you want discussed, or a particular person you want invited on the show. We want to ensure that the podcast reflects what you need.

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Today's episode is a Child Abuse Review Special where we hear from researchers, academics and practitioners who've published articles in Child Abuse Review, as well as the editorial team behind the journal.

In this episode Helen Wilson, Operations Manager at the Association of Child Protection Professionals, talks to Prof Kish Bhatti-Sinclair and Dr Lisa Bunting about their first 7 months as Co-editors, what to expect in the future, and how to get involved with the journal.

Professor Kish Bhatti-Sinclair is Head of Social Work and Social Care at the University of Chichester. She is known for her work on social work, race and racism and is particularly interested in ethnically sensitive research methodologies and theories, such as modern racism, which test discriminatory attitudes and behaviours.

Kish has worked on commissioned evaluation projects which have enabled her to make recommendations directly to child protection agencies and has led on a number of publications which have questioned professional ideologies and beliefs, responses to child abuse within Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic families, cultural racism, anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia.

Dr Lisa Bunting is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Queen’s University, Belfast. Lisa has worked in the field of child welfare and child protection research for the past two decades and has specific interests in the impact of childhood adversity and the development of trauma informed children’s services. She has recently led on the first national prevalence survey of mental health problems and trauma exposure among Northern Ireland youth and, together with colleagues at Queen’s, has conducted a rapid evidence review of system-wide trauma informed care implementation to inform the regional roll-out of the NI Safeguarding Board’s Trauma Informed Initiative. She is currently working on analysis of children’s social care data to identify trends in the relationship between area level deprivation, involvement with child protection social work, and patterns of repeated service use over time.

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We started this podcast at the beginning of lockdown to support professionals continuing to work with vulnerable children, and families, under unprecedented circumstances.

With the goal of alleviating the pressure child protection professionals are under, we’ve brought together leading experts within research and practice to impart their knowledge of the latest issues in child protection and safeguarding.

Eighteen months and thousands of downloads later, we want to hear from YOU about what you would like to hear in upcoming episodes.

Whether it’s a particular topic you want discussed, or a particular person you want invited on the show. We want to ensure that the podcast reflects what you need.

So feel free to email us at hello@childprotectionprofessionals.org.uk with any suggestions.

And if you’ve been enjoying listening to this podcast - please rate, review and subscribe as it helps other child protection and adult safeguarding professionals find us.

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Find out more about Child Abuse Review here: https://www.childprotectionprofessionals.org.uk/child-abuse-review/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10990852

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Music by Alexander King

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In today's episode Penny Earney, Director of the Association of Child Protection Professionals introduces our Special Interest Group (SIG) focusing on Children and Young People in Care and Care Experienced. Wendy is joined by the SIG Chair Penny Earney, former Designated Nurse for Looked After Children and Care Leavers andl the Chair of the AoCPP’s Children and Young People in Care and Care Experienced SIG, is joined by Rebekah Pierre to discuss her lived experience of unregulated placements and what needs to change.

Rebekah Pierre is a care-experienced social worker and author, who currently works for the British Association of Social Workers. She has written extensively about the care system, featuring in The Guardian, The Independent, Radio 4 & others. Rebekah's lived experience is central to her campaign work; her peer-reviewed journal, 'Revisiting Diary Entries from Care: An Exposition of the Challenges of Unregulated Placement Settings', examines her childhood diary extracts from an autoethnographic perspective, linking lived experience to wider policy failures. She represented the #KeepCaringto18 campaign at Downing Street earlier this year and is passionate about equality of care for all children. Follow Rebekah at @RebekahPierre92 on Twitter.

Penny Earney has experience of working with families and vulnerable children, both clinically and strategically within health, over the last 40 years building a wealth of expertise, competencies, knowledge and skills.

Her experience of working strategically as a NHS Designated Nurse, has developed a passion and focus to be able to scrutinise quality assurance within the constant challenging and changing landscape of complex vulnerability for children and families. Her drive to actively seek the voice of children within the care system and care experience young people, hear what they were saying and asking, resulted in a successful business case being awarded 7K to commission health provision required to improve and sustain health outcomes and experiences of looked after children and care leavers within Dorset.

Having retired from her substantive NHS role in December 2020, she is now working as an independent specialist health practitioner, continuing her passion for improving and sustaining effective service delivery to support vulnerable children and families.

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We started this podcast at the beginning of lockdown to support professionals continuing to work with vulnerable children, and families, under unprecedented circumstances.

With the goal of alleviating the pressure professionals are under, we’ve brought together leading experts within research and practice share their knowledge of the latest issues in child protection and adult safeguarding.

Two years later, we want to hear from YOU about what you would like to hear in upcoming episodes.

Whether it’s a particular topic you want discussed, or a particular person you want invited on the show. We want to ensure that the podcast reflects what you need.

So feel free to email us at hello@childprotectionprofessionals.org.uk with any suggestions.

And if you’ve been enjoying listening to this podcast - please rate, review and subscribe as it helps other child protection professionals find us.

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Find us at:

childprotectionprofessionals.org.uk

Twitter: @AoCPPTweet

Facebook: The Association of Child Protection Professionals

Email: hello@childprotectionprofessionals.org.uk

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Music by Alexander King

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