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Transforming Communities Together

This event focuses on bringing families together to help protect our children from criminal exploitation human trafficking &amp; modern slavery.

Lichfield Cathedral

<h2>The Lichfield Diocese Mothers’ Union (LDMU), Lichfield Cathedral and Transforming Communities Together (TCT) are inviting families from across the Lichfield Diocese to come together for this ground breaking event.</h2><h3>This is a call to action, to gather and to equip!</h3><h3>Bringing families together to talk about the very IMPORTANT and RELEVANT serious and sensitive subject of human trafficking, criminal exploitation and grooming. We want to encourage and equip families with the correct information to enable them to have safe open honest conversations with their children. </h3><h3>We want to reduce the stigma and change the narrative from one of reaction to prevention. We want to educate so we can keep our children safe.</h3><h3>Knowledge is only power if it is applied and we want to help arm you with everything you need to know so that you can be aware of how easily it is for any of us especially our children to become a target for exploitation, bullying has taken a different shape and we want to give you all you need to know to be aware and spot the signs and keep one another safe.</h3><h3>Our children of today are tomorrows future and it takes a village to raise a child so let's gather together and ensure their future is safe secure and in good hands.</h3><p>We are bringing together Mothers’ Union member, their children and their grandchildren (<em><strong>from 10 years and upwards</strong></em>) at Lichfield Cathedral for two hours to focus on the real dangers of criminal exploitation, human trafficking and modern slavery.</p><p>There is power in multiple  generations coming together to explore this growing issue, that threatens all ages. </p><p>We’ll be <em>sensitively</em> discussing how we might work together to keep our children safe, valuing the input of the children themselves. This is a unique opportunity to engage with our LDMU members, their families, and the wider church.</p><p>Hosted by Lichfield Cathedral, we will be blessed with the support of:</p><p>• The Children’s Society</p><p>• West Midlands Police Violence Reduction</p><p>• Blue Bear Coffee company</p><h3>What will the format be?</h3><p>It is a call to action, as this event will be centred around the narrative ‘<strong>What will you do next?</strong>’</p><p>Everyone in attendance will be working together in family groups to create their own action plan.</p><p>It will be an engaging, interactive session for all attending, with quizzes, talks and art.</p><h3>Why?</h3><p>With alarming figures reported in April 2021, we must act now. Our children are at risk and we MUST act together to ensure that they are safe.</p><p>No matter where we live, there is real danger. During the pandemic, many vulnerable people have been targeted here in the UK. Reports of sexual and criminal exploitation increased dramatically during the pandemic. Our children are being groomed into drug criminal gangs in so-called ’county lines’ trafficking, forced begging and shoplifting. </p><p>The BBC reported recently that a 14-year-old boy was recruited in less than 80 minutes on social media.</p><h3>Need more information?</h3><h3>Please contact info@tctogether.org.uk </h3>

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