ExChange Wales

📣 Don't miss out on our second webinar in our conference, next week:

"Strengthening the System for Criminally Exploited Children: From Awareness to Action"

Speaker: Sharon Maciver
📅 Mon 13th October
⏰ 1 - 2pm
📍 Online, Teams

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Kinship care is more prevalent than foster care or adoption, but we know less about these families.

This #KinshipCareWeek, check out our latest blog 'What we still don't know about kinship care' and get in touch with us about your priorities for kinship care!

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📣 Don't miss out on this new addition to our conference!

Webinar: "Missing and Lost: Missing Children, Social Harm and Structural Violence"

Speaker: Dr Paul Andell

🗓️ Weds 22nd October
⏰ 1 - 2pm
📍 Online, Teams

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Opening Address for the ExChange Wales autumn conference: 'Safeguarding Approaches for Criminally Exploited Children' by Dawn Bowden, Minister for Children and Social Care. Find out more and sign… Opening Address - Dawn Bowden MS | Safeguarding Approaches for Criminally Exploited Children

Watch the opening address of our Autumn conference by Dawn Bowden MS: Minister for Children and Social Care. 📺

Premiering today at 10am: youtu.be/kI9lehsnOd4

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The fourth webinar in our upcoming autumn conference:

"Falling through the net: The exploitation of learning disabled & neurodivergent children and young people."

Speakers: Sarah Goff & Anita Franklin
📅 Tues 4th Nov
⏰ 12 - 1pm
📍 Online, Teams

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Have you heard our new podcast series? 🎧

In our first episode, Dr Richard Gater talked to us about his new book "The 21st Century Ladz" & the changing attitudes to 'manhood' in young men in South Wales.

Listen: buff.ly/qRMloGs

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💡Two days to go! Don't miss out on the first webinar in our conference series:

"They're not seeing young people as victims of exploitation"

Speaker: Dr Nina Maxwell
📅 Weds 1st October
⏰ 1 - 2pm
📍 Online, Teams

Find out more & sign up: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d51e36...

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💡 The third webinar in our upcoming Autumn conference series:

"Missing and Lost: Missing Children, Social Harm and Structural Violence"

Speaker: Dr Paul Andell

🗓️ Weds 22nd October
⏰ 1 - 2pm
📍 Online, Teams

Sign up: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/58b27a...

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💡 The second webinar in our upcoming Autumn conference series:

"Strengthening the System for Criminally Exploited Children: From Awareness to Action"

Speaker: Sharon Maciver
📅 Monday 13th October
⏰ 1 - 2pm
📍 Online, Teams

Sign up: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8d346a...

#CEC #SocialCare

The presenter calls for trauma-informed, relationship-based & structurally aware safeguarding practices that prioritise protection, equity & systemic reform over procedural compliance.

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(7/7)

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Accounts from frontline practitioners highlight the limitations of fragmented, risk-averse systems and the contradictions faced by residential staff. (6/7)

The webinar will explore how social inequalities, race, class, and gender intersect to compound marginalisation, leading children to become not only physically ‘missing’ but institutionally ‘lost.’ (5/7)

Children in care are disproportionately vulnerable to criminal and sexual exploitation, often misrecognised as offenders rather than safeguarded as victims. (4/7)

Drawing on personal reflections, policy analysis, case studies, and recent qualitative research, the presenter suggests that episodes of missing children are not isolated events but symptoms of systemic failure. (3/7)

In this webinar Dr Paul Andell will discuss the phenomenon of children going missing from care, situating these experiences within wider frameworks of structural violence, social harm, and institutional neglect. (2/7)

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(5/5)

The conference also draws current research and the notable Jay Review of Criminally Exploited Children: Shattered Lives, Stolen Futures and a study undertaken by the Modern Slavery Network on trafficking and exploitation of children with special educational needs and disabilities. (4/5)

It is a safeguarding issue that needs to be addressed with urgency, and the focus of these webinars is moving from understanding to action.

Dawn Bowden MS will introduce the conference in a video address, and the Welsh Gov will be launching their Anti Slavery Wales online learning tool. (3/5)

The focus of this conference is moving from understanding the criminal exploitation of children to taking action. Whilst there has been growing impetus on multi-agency safeguarding, there is still a lack of legislation on modern slavery and the criminal exploitation of children. (2/5)

📣 OCT - NOV 2025 - Autumn Conference 🍂

'Safeguarding Approaches for Criminally Exploited Children'

Sign up to our free conference events today: buff.ly/QWHWkX3 (1/5)

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"They want to do manual work & that partly comes from their influence from their fathers, the community - they inherit these ideas that this is what a 'real man' looks like.... they don't see education as beneficial to their future, and they reject that idea of meritocracy...they see it as a myth."

Dr Richard Gater joins us in our latest podcast episode to discuss the changing attitudes of masculinity in South Wales, his experiences as a youth worker & his path into social care research.

🎧 Listen now: www.buzzsprout.com/1788148/epis...

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In this webinar, Dr Laura Cowley discussed efforts through a pan-European Delphi Study to achieve a unified definition of child maltreatment to enhance measurement and surveillance across… Defining child maltreatment for research and surveillance - Dr Laura Cowley | ExChange Wales

Missed our latest webinar? You can now catch it on our YouTube Channel! 📺

Watch Dr Laura Cowley's webinar: youtu.be/wD7mTqTtYso

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The new season of our podcast was released last week! If you missed it, catch it on your podcast platform of choice...

Or listen here!
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Dr Richard Gater joins us for a discussion on changing attitudes of 'manhood' and 'masculinity' in South Wales.

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The first episode of the new season of our podcast is available now! 🎧

In this episode, Dr Richard Gater discusses his new book 'The 21st Century Ladz', which draws on his study exploring changing ideas of masculinity and social class identity.

Listen now:
➡️ www.buzzsprout.com/1788148/epis...