“Call us by our name”: Quality of care and wellbeing from the perspective of girls in residential care facilities who are commercially and sexually exploited by “loverboys”

Aussems, Karijn; Muntinga, Maaike; Addink, Anne; Dedding, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105213

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“…Out-of-home care is used to remove young people from situations and contexts of risk, and/ or to manage persistent episodes of them running away from home or care. Some placements in North America and Europe are referred to as 'specialised care provisions' for cases of exploitation or trafficking (Farrell et al, 2019; Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2019; Aussems et al, 2020), designed to engage with specific dynamics of EFRH and reduce the risk that being in care might exacerbate a young person's exposure to exploitation. However, some young people who have been sexually exploited or trafficked repeatedly go 'missing' from residential placements due to ongoing contact with those who exploit them.…”

Section: Individualised or Restrictive Intervention Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home

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This book would not have happened without the support of the Economic and Social Research Council. Its four years funding for the Innovate Project enabled us to conduct the evidence review upon which this book is based and gave us the time to write it. We are grateful for the ideas shared by, and the many discussions with, all members of the Innovate Project. In particular, we thank Katie Latimer, now moved on, who contributed to the original evidence review, and Kristi Hickle and Gillian Ruch, who read draft chapters. We owe a particular debt of gratitude to Lauren Wroe, from Durham University, who provided a thorough critical and textual review of the whole text. We wish to acknowledge the additional financial support from the University of Sussex and Durham University, which has enabled the electronic version of this book to be published open access. We hope that this means it will be shared widely in the practice field to facilitate the further development of services. Finally, we acknowledge the important contribution to this book of all the young people, parents, carers and practitioners who, in the studies we reviewed, shared their perspectives on service approaches to preventing and addressing extra-familial risks and harms. newgenprepdf 1 ONE The emerging concept of extra-familial risks and harms

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Section: Individualised or Restrictive Intervention Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home

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LEFEVRE²,

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“…The relational features of many responses to EFH (detailed above) are potentially compromised when young people are relocated for their own safety (Shuker, 2013;Anon, 2019). When EFH occurs in neighbourhood and school settings -or within peer or wider community networks -research from the UK and other parts of Europe, Australia, and the USA has evidenced the use of out-of-home residential or foster care, secure placements, and other forms of relocation by statutory agencies (Aussemsa et al, 2020;Anon, 2019;Dierkhisinga et al, 2020;Ellis, 2018;Sapiro, 2016;Shuker, 2013). This approach removes young people from those who pose a risk to their safety and is intended to prevent them from going 'missing' and running to relationships/networks that are considered 'harmful'.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, the contextual and social dynamics of EFH mean that in many countries around the world, professionals will relocate young people away from their home communities (and any protective relationships that they may have within them), to extricate them from extra-familial contexts and relationships where they have come to harm (Aussemsa et al, 2020;Dierkhisinga et al, 2020;Ellis, 2018;Sapiro et al, 2016;Shuker, 2013).…”

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Holding It Together? Professional Perspectives on the Role of Relationships when Relocating Young People due to Extra-familial Harm

Firmin

Owens

2021

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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When young people come to harm in extra-familial contexts, professionals may move them a distance from their home community to protect them, and in doing so disrupt relationships in which they have encountered harm. However, relocations can also fracture young people’s protective relationships with family, peers, and professionals; relationships that have been positioned as targets for intervention in cases of extra-familial harm. The extent to which these relationships are considered during relocations is under-explored. Utilising semi-structured interviews with 16 social work professionals in England and Wales, we assessed their accounts of using relationships prior to, during, and following relocations in cases of extra-familial harm. Three themes emerged: using relationships during relocations to provide consistency, to collaborate, and to create safety. Professional accounts prioritised young people’s relationships with practitioners, over relationships with families, peers, and their wider communities, when using/seeking opportunities to offer consistency and to collaborate on safety plans. They also depicted a struggle to engage with the complex web of family, peer, and community relationships associated to young people’s protection in both their home communities and those they had been moved to; relationships that were critical for creating safety. Implications for practice and future research are discussed, highlighting the potential merits of offering integrated research and practice frameworks that hold together young people’s relationships with families, peers, communities, and professionals, in response to extra-familial harm.

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“…It could, however, be argued that the desire for ‘less formal’ interactions and non‐judgemental support may also indicate that other types of supportive relationships may also be desired or helpful – mirroring the centrality of peer support within wider trauma‐informed literature. For example, young people impacted by CSE have expressed a preference to work with professionals who have ‘walked in their shoes’ or experienced other forms of trauma (Aussems et al, 2020). These young people note the frustration they feel when professionals say they understand what they are going through when they themselves have not experienced such trauma (Aussems et al, 2020; Barnert et al, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, young people impacted by CSE have expressed a preference to work with professionals who have ‘walked in their shoes’ or experienced other forms of trauma (Aussems et al, 2020). These young people note the frustration they feel when professionals say they understand what they are going through when they themselves have not experienced such trauma (Aussems et al, 2020; Barnert et al, 2020). Yet despite indications that peer support may be beneficial in supporting young people, little is known about models or sources of support that do not centre on the traditional relationship between a young person and a professional.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Keeping the informal safe’: Strategies for developing peer support initiatives for young people who have experienced sexual violence

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There is increasing recognition of the value of traumainformed approaches when working with young people affected by sexual violence. Peer support is a key principle of a trauma-informed approach; however, there are limited examples of peer support programmes for this group. This paper draws on interviews with 25 respondents with knowledge and experience of peer support initiatives with young people impacted by sexual violence.The article outlines their perspectives on how peer support initiatives -that may be viewed as more 'risky' than traditional casework -can be kept 'safe'. Six strategies are identified together with implications for practice.

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“Call us by our name”: Quality of care and wellbeing from the perspective of girls in residential care facilities who are commercially and sexually exploited by “loverboys”

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home

Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home

Holding It Together? Professional Perspectives on the Role of Relationships when Relocating Young People due to Extra-familial Harm

‘Keeping the informal safe’: Strategies for developing peer support initiatives for young people who have experienced sexual violence

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