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Ivison Trust (formerly Pace) is a national charity working to keep children safe from exploitation by supporting their parents, disrupting the offenders and working in partnership with police and family services. We also train professionals to support affected children and their parents using a trauma-informed, family-centric approach.

Ivison Trust seeks to:

• 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.

We provide a range of support services for parents and a full training programme for professionals about how to support families affected by child exploitation.

Parent and Carer Support

Our parent support workers provide independent, non-judgmental and confidential support, which fully recognises your rights as a parent and your decisions on how to reduce the risk of harm to your child.

We can talk through your immediate concerns, help you assess the level of danger your child is in, and signpost you to agencies in your area who may be able to give you local support.

We can also equip you with information for notifying police and social care, and provide practical tips for logging information and gathering evidence. We will never blame you for what is happening to your child and aim to help you find the best solution for your family.

Who is this aimed at?

Parents and carers of, as well as professionals working with children who are or are at risk of being exploited.

Where

Telephone - support is available across England and Wales, with some face-to-face sessions available in certain areas, please see our website for details.

In person - Network days are held in various locations around England.

Online - You can access support online through the Parent forum.

Information and Advice resources - Read about how to make a referral to Children’s Social Care Services, how to collect evidence against offenders and current legislation that the police may use to protect your child.

Visit the Information and Advice Centre page on the Ivison Trust website

Cost

This support is free

How to get involved

If you are a parent with any concerns that your child is being sexually or criminally exploited or is at risk, please complete the Parent Support Enquiry form and a member of our National Parent Support team will get in touch.

Please note: We cannot accept referrals from professionals – if you are working with a parent or carer and would like them to access our parent support service, please ask them to complete the enquiry form.

Visit the Parent Support Enquiry form on the Ivison Trust website

Contact details

General enquiries

Phone: 0113 240 3040

Email: info@ivisontrust.org.uk

For further information

For more information about Ivison Trust search Ivison Trust in this directory.

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