This week DI Ivon Beer, from the Metropolitan Police, who has been working with us on our Marginal Gains project as part of the CSE and Policing Knowledge Hub, shares his reflections in the run up to the Met police’s CSE conference to be held this Friday Working together to fight child sexual exploitation. 

The next research police research forum entitled Police-led research: Supporting and Extending Evidence-Based Policing will be on the 8th of February 2017 at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.  

In November the CSE and Policing Knowledge Hub held its second research forum in Birmingham. The forum was given the title ‘Marginal Gains’ focusing on Police and adolescents perspectives on improving police engagement with young people. Young people from our ‘Experts By Experience’ project attended the research forum and many of them co presented with police officers on the day.

We are delighted to report that our residential with Experts by Experience and Police was a great success! Everybody involved was dedicated to the aims of the residential and the work achieved was outstanding.

We are happy to announce that the next Police Research Forum entitled Improving police engagement with young people affected by CSE and other forms of CSA will be held on Tuesday 22nd November in Birmingham. 

Brian Rose is a Police Inspector who is seconded to the International Centre for 12 months. In this post he reflects on the challenges and opportunities of finding himself in a totally different environment, and argues that, despite some hurdles, this kind of multi-disciplinary working is the way forward.

Hello and welcome to our new CSE and Policing Hub, the website for our new project ‘working together to enhance policing responses to CSE and associated vulnerabilities in adolescence’. This project has been kindly funded by the Home Office, College of Policing and HEFCE as part of its ‘Knowledge Fund’; a funding package designed to improve academic and policing collaboration.

This is not about us, as academics, telling police how to do things, but about a partnership approach where we can help you use research evidence to support your work and you can help us make sure that the research we do is rooted in reality. As part of this commitment to two-way learning, we have seconded a police officer into the team to help direct the project - two months in, we are already greatly benefiting from the real life insights that he brings to our work.

The CSE and Policing Knowledge Hub held the first of their three Research Forum events this week. The aim of this first research forum was to give police colleagues an opportunity to critically appraise what working in a multi-agency context actually requires in order to effectively safeguard adolescents from harm (including child sexual exploitation and other forms of CSA, sexual violence and other vulnerabilities they experience)