Webinar: Disrupting Exploitation – Innovative Safeguarding Strategies

Disrupting Exploitation – Innovative Safeguarding Strategies

Join us for a dynamic and thought-provoking session led by NWG’s Police and Justice Lead, Lin Sands, as we explore effective approaches to disrupting exploitation. This interactive webinar encourages attendees to reflect on and share their own experiences, reinforcing the benefits of a collaborative environment to learn from one another.

The session provides a unique opportunity to:

• Understand and consider innovative and creative methods used to safeguard individuals from exploitation.
• Explore tried and tested strategies alongside cutting-edge approaches employed by a variety of partners.

• Engage with the updated and digitised NWG Disruption Toolkit, designed to support professionals in identifying and interrupting exploitation.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:

• Understand and relate to the various forms of Exploitation as defined by the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

• Explore Disruption methods/tools to consider how civil and criminal legislation can be used to reduce, prevent, or delay opportunities for exploitation.
• Recognise how evidence-led investigations and disruption strategies may be used when a victim’s testimony is absent/limited.

• Use and apply the NWG Disruption Toolkit to support robust decisions that disrupt/interrupt perpetrators from targeting, grooming and/or exploiting vulnerable individuals.

Key Features of the session:

• Sharing of proven disruption strategies across agencies.
• Encouragement of multi-agency collaboration to prevent exploitation and recognise how we can disrupt perpetrator behaviours.
• Focus on practical application of legislation and tools in real-world scenarios.

Duration - 3 hours

Why This Course Matters and What You’ll Learn:

Safeguarding vulnerable Children and Adults from abuse, is everyone’s responsibility. Exploitation in any form is ABUSE. It is not always possible for children/young adults to be able to provide enough information for us to take criminal action against perpetrators, but our ability to safeguard them through creative disruption strategies is possible and may be more appropriate.

Whether you're new to safeguarding or looking to enhance your current practice, this webinar offers valuable insights and practical tools to strengthen your legal literacy and response to exploitation effectively and appropriately.