Community Care: How social workers can protect children with learning disabilities from sexual exploitation

Emilie Smeaton, one of the authors of a report published today on the sexual exploitation of children with learning disabilities, gives key tips to social workers.

Unprotected, overprotected’ is UK-wide research addressing the sexual exploitation of children and young people with learning disabilities. This has provided the following evidence-based key lessons for social workers to take forward into their practice:

Children with learning disabilities have similar vulnerabilities to sexual exploitation as other children and young people

 

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Kingston University: ‘WHEN SOMEBODY DIES…Learning from people with learning disabilities’

An inaugural lecture by Professor Irene Tuffrey-Wijne

Title: ‘WHEN SOMEBODY DIES…Learning from people with learning disabilities’

Nobody likes to think about death, but we are all affected by it. We face the deaths of family and friends, and ultimately, of ourselves.

What if the bereaved person has learning disabilities? What if the dying person has learning disabilities?
What is it like for them, and for their families, their carers, the professionals involved? How can everyone be supported?
How can we learn to listen?

In this lecture, Professor Irene Tuffrey-Wijne will share her insights from 15 years of research – and we may discover that, far from being morbid, looking at dying can be life-affirming.

Wednesday 9 January 2019

Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue: Michael Heron Lecture Theatre, St George’s, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE

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