Ivison Trust

• Enable parents and carers to safeguard and stop their children being exploited.
• Provide evidence and specialist advice in order to demonstrate to partners that parents and carers have an essential safeguarding role.
• Work with parents and partners to disrupt and bring exploiters to justice.
• Influence national and local policy and practice to reflect the active safeguarding role of parents and the impact on families of child exploitation.
• Sustain long term change by training partners in the active role of parents and carers safeguarding their children. 

Ivison Trust offers parents and carers compassionate support and advice informed by on over 25 years of experiences working in partnership with parents to tackle child exploitation.

Ivison Trust recognises and celebrates the lifelong commitment parents have for their child. We understand the lengths to which they will go to keep their child from harm.

Alongside our training courses, we have developed videos and helpful resources to support professionals to embed and promote our family friendly, relationship-based ethos.

Free training

We have two free e-learning courses; Keep Them Safe – An introduction to child sexual exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation and County Lines E-Learning Course about how children are groomed and exploited into criminality.

Commitment to Family Friendly Practice

Both organisations and individuals can sign up to our Commitment to Family Friendly Practice.  By signing up to our Commitment, together we can stand for, and promote positive relationships with families affected by child exploitation where they are treated as equal partners.

Spotting the signs film

Watch and promote our film to parents and professionals in your community to raise awareness about child exploitation and how to recognise the signs that a child might be at risk. This film draws on the lived experiences of parents affected by child exploitation.

Publications

We have developed helpful guides for professionals from supporting parents through the judicial process and working alongside the police.

Useful guides

Have a look at our Information and Advice Centre for detailed guides about child exploitation.

Supporting parents and carers guide: Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse

Communicating with children guide: Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse

• Sunrise Team - Keeping young people safe
• Public Protection Investigation Unit (PPIU)
• Rochdale's Childrens Social Care
• Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Partnership (RBSCP)
• NSPCC - Child Protection Helpline
• ChildLine (external link)