Parent Participation Update, June 2026
Welcome and update from Nancy, Parent Participation Coordinator
Dear parents and carers a very warm welcome to you all! I want to thank all of the passionate parent participants who have joined the project to use their insights on the issues of child exploitation to create better interventions and outcomes for affected families.
Over the last six months parent participants have been involved in:-
- Meeting to share insights and ideas at the online parent open groups
- Supporting Ivison Trust training
- Supporting each other in peer spaces
- Being part of the working group to communicate Ivison Trusts relational safeguarding model with greater clarity so that other agencies can use it
- Developing lived experience training resources for the National County Lines Coordination Centres training of frontline professionals
- Creating articles of insight about the legacy of child exploitation and rebuilding lives
- Consulting on the systems review of approaches to child sexual exploitation with university researchers.
If you’d like to know more about what the charity has been up to, please look at our annual impact report.
In other developments
- Ivison Trust Are offering counselling to parents receiving current support by Ivison Trust in West Yorkshire.
- Dr S Hall and Dr N Marsh have launched research regarding how agencies work in partnership with parents.Read From Excluded to Included: Parents as Partners in Child Exploitation.
Upcoming events and projects for 2026
If you would like to become part of parent participation, share ideas, or express an interest in any of the following events and projects please contact Nancy, the parent participation coordinator at Ivison Trust via email to nancy.pike@ivisontrust.org.uk or mobile 07960 235638.
If you want to sign up to any of the following online events please fill in this form.
- Monday 14th September 6-7pm– Child sexual exploitationonline peer support ‘cuppa and catch’
- Monday 21st September 6-7pm- Childcriminal exploitation online peer support ‘cuppa and catch up’
- Monday 28th September 6-7pm– Child sexual exploitationparent open group to discuss strategy and what is needed to create change
- Monday 5th October 6-7pm– Child criminal exploitationparent open group to discuss strategy and what is needed to create change
- Monday 2nd November 6-7pm– Child sexual exploitationonline peer support ‘cuppa and catch’
- Monday 9th November 6-7pm- Childcriminal exploitation online peer support ‘cuppa and catch up’
- Monday 16th November 6-7pm– Child sexual exploitationparent open group to discuss strategy and what is needed to create change
- Monday 30th November 6-7pm– Child criminal exploitationparent open group to discuss strategy and what is needed to create change