Engagement, Enforcement and Effective Partnerships
Wednesday 24th November 2010 – Central London
Supporters: Met, Wiltshire, Bradford and Airdale Community Health Services
Chaired by: Joy Doal, Director, Anawim
If you are responsible for policing prostitution or supporting the people involved, this November’s national Prostitution Conference is designed specifically for you; and your frontline partners in the Police, Local Authority and Voluntary Sector.
This respected national event is tailored to give you the most comprehensive, up to date strategic guidance and cutting-edge case studies examining:
- Tackling the demand for prostitution
- Proven solutions to the multiple challenges of enforcing legislation
- Health, drug dependency and support needs of sex workers
- Tackling violence and sexual abuse
- Criminalization, the recent Policing and Crime Act
- Sessions from 3 national police forces, 2 health partnerships and the most innovative services providers in the UK
- Reducing on-street prostitution and protecting vulnerable sex workers
- effectively implementing engagement and exit strategies
Book your place now speakers to get to grip with balancing the competing goals involved in tackling prostitution. Make sure you attend to put your organisation on the best footing possible to address the prevalence of sex workers in your local area and improve the safety of local communities.
Benefits of Attending
- Identify improvements to existing policing strategies to tackle prostitution and human trafficking for sexual exploitation
- Examine the best approaches to curbing demand for prostitution and the associated anti-social behaviour from effective partnership case studies
- Hear urban and rural police forces share their experiences of engaging sex workers and local neighbourhoods to make communities safe
- Deepen your understanding of the sentencing and treatment of sex workers in the criminal justice sector
- Discover improved ways to provide a range of sexual health, emotional wellbeing and substance misuse services to those most in need
- Identify how to improve the engagement of ‘off street’ sex workers to increase access to mainstream services
Our expert speakers include:
· Jennifer Baer, Senior Outreach Sister, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust
· Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Martin, Human Exploitation and Organised Crime Unit, Metropolitan Police Service
· Beverley Carter, Project Manager, Bridging the Gap
· Sarah Learmonth, Policy Officer, Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre
· Michelle Khan, Manager, Bradford Working Women’s Project
· Joy Doal, Director, Anawim
· Sergeant Owen Farmer, Vice Team Lead Lambeth Police, Metropolitan Police Service
· Helen Atkins, Research Fellow, The Griffins Society
· Sophia McIntyre, Vice Liaison Officer,Swindon Police, Wiltshire Police Service
· Peter Middleton, Senior Outreach Manager, New Horizon Youth Centre
· Mac McDonald, Team Leader, Camden Safer Streets Team
