Subject: Invitation: Conference, 3rd October Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Modern Child Slavery
You are warmly invited to
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Modern Child Slavery
A one day conference on 3rd October 2016 organised by: The Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile, The Children's Society, ECPAT UK, The Helen Bamber Foundation and The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU), Islington Law Centre.
Please click on the links below to access the registration site and conference programme.
This conference is for front line practitioners (police; social workers; lawyers, health workers), policy officers and academics interested in better understanding the causes and consequences of trafficking for children and young people. The conference aims to explore the development of holistic, integrated interdisciplinary approaches to finding durable solutions for young people trafficked from overseas, increasing their protection in the present and for the future.
When:
Monday 3rd October 2016 from 9.30am to 5.30pm
Where:
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
Cost: £10 (Early bird before August 12th 2016: £5). Register at: http://bit.ly/childslaveryconference
View Conference Programme<https://www.dropbox.com/s/rmbmyu185ii5pp8/Programme%203.10.16.pdf?dl=0>
Please contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> for more information, or for registration questions.
Speakers/Contributors include:
Debbie Ariyo OBE, (Founder and Chief Executive of AFRUCA – Africans Unite Against Child Abuse), Debbie Beadle (Head of Youth Programmes, ECPAT UK), Phil Brewer (Detective Chief Inspector SCO7(1) Trafficking & Kidnap Unit, the Metropolitan Police Service), Lynne Chitty (UK Care Director of Love146 and specialist in safeguarding trafficked children), Professor Gary Craig (Emeritus Professor of Social Justice, Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull), Mike Dottridge (Consultant in Child Rights, former Director of Anti-Slavery International and current Trustee of the UN Slavery Fund), Mandy John-Baptiste (Team Manager, Child Trafficking Advice Centre, NSPCC and Qualified Social Worker), Professor Cornelius Katona (Medical Director, Helen Bamber Foundation and Refugee and Asylum Mental Health Lead, Royal College of Psychiatrists), Kalvir Kaur (Solicitor, Anti-Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit), Dr Michael Korsinski (Psychologist and Consultant on psychosocial approaches to trauma work), Dr Jo McClatchey (Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist) Sheila Melzak (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Director the Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile), Bharti Patel (Chief Executive, ECPAT UK), Baljeet Sandhu (Solicitor and Founding Director of the Migrant & Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU), Islington Law Centre), James Simmonds-Read (Trafficked Boys and Young Men’s Practitioner, The Children’s Society), Philippa Southwell (Criminal defence, human trafficking and modern slavery specialist solicitor, and Head of the Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Department, Birds Solicitors), Mimi Vu (Director of Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships, Pacific Links, Vietnam) and Frances Webber (Vice-chair of Institute of Race Relations and previously an immigration and human rights barrister until retirement)
Keynote speakers:
Kevin Hyland OBE, Anti Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, a leading barrister and an expert in human rights law
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