International Conference 21st and 22nd June 2017

Supported by BT

From Discovery to Recovery – Online Sexual Abuse of Children

A warm welcome to all delegates from the MCF staff and the Board of Trustees to our third international conference. This year the conference will run over two days. The first day (21st June 2017) will be held at the BT Centre and will take the form of a story board when delegates will have the chance to learn about the new developments in preventing online abuse of children, andthe challengesfaced by families and professionals in combating child abuse imagery and grooming of children online.

The second day (22nd June 2017) will be held at the BT Tower where we will be running three workshops in the morning and three in the afternoon.

PROGRAMME
08.15 / Registration and refreshments
9.00 / Welcome / Tink Palmer MBE
CEO Marie Collins Foundation
09.15 / Setting the scene / Chief Constable Simon Bailey
Norfolk Police, NPCC Lead for Child Protection & Abuse Investigation and MCF Trustee
09.45 / Working together to protect children / Julian Ashworth
Global Director Industry Policy, BT
10.05 / The case for digital civility: Galvanising for a more inclusive, respectful and empathetic web / Jacqueline Beauchere
Chief Online Safety Officer, Microsoft
THEME: PREVENTION, INTERVENTION AND RECOVERY – WHAT NEEDS TO BE DIFFERENT?
10.30 / 7 Years on and what have we learnt? / A Father’s Personal Testimony
11.00 / BREAK – REFRESHMENTS
THEME: PREVENTION
11.20 / Helping parents safeguard their children online / Carolyn Bunting
General Manager, Internet Matters
11.45 / Professionals Online Safety Helpline – helping professionals safeguard children online / Laura Higgins
Online Safety Operations Manager at South West Grid for Learning
12.15 / Preventing the abuse of children online through education / Jonathan Baggaley
PHSE Association
12.45 / Encouraging and enabling young people to be safe on-line / Will Gardner
CEO, Childnet International
13.15 / LUNCH BREAK
THEME: INTERVENTION AND RECOVERY – GROOMING ONLINE
14.00 / Personal Testimony – grooming online and its consequences / Lorin LaFave
CEO The Breck Foundation
THEME: INTERVENTION AND RECOVERY – CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
14.45 / Child Abuse Images Database (CAID) / Piers Harrison
Online CSE: Strategic Centre for Organised crime – Home Office
15.15 / Preventing the ongoing abuse of children by stopping the distribution of child abuse imagery / Fred Langford
Deputy CEO, Internet Watch Foundation and MCF Trustee
15.45 / Personal testimony
The arrest of my husband for viewing child abuse images and what it did to my family / A partner and mother
16.10 / Sexual images of children online – innovations in the UK for preventing and deterring offenders / Donald Findlater
Independent Consultant
Child Safeguarding Consultant to The Lucy Faithfull Foundation
16.40 / Final remarks / Chief Constable Simon Bailey
16.45 / Close

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