The Survivors Trust 2nd National Conference Living on the edge … Sexual violence and abuse in context 10th and 11th December 2007 Warwick University Key Address: Vernon Coaker, MP, Under Secretary of State for Violent Crime Reduction

Leading speakers and presenters

2 day residential conference - Day delegate rates available

Workshops focusing on understanding and responding to the complex dynamics and needs of survivors of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse

Specialist workshops Continuing Professional Development Conference Chair: Prof Jonathan Montgomery Chair, Hampshire PCT Conference Booking Line: 01788 550554

Email: Liz Campbell at [email protected] or Abigail Hunt at [email protected]

Conference Organiser The Survivors Trust is a national voice representing 125 agencies within the specialist voluntary sector, working with survivors of rape, sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse. The organisation is recognised by both the Department of Health and the Home Office.

About the Conference The Survivors Trust’s 2007 National Conference aims to bring together the social and health support needs of sexual violence/abuse survivors in an increasing climate of change for abuse service provision.

Aims of the Conference  To challenge society’s myths about these issues  To present up-to-date research on practice and policy issues for working with victims and survivors of sexual violence  To bring together specialist voluntary sector and statutory sector services to explore working in partnership to better meet the needs of this client group.

Conference Chair Professor Jonathan Montgomery will be Chairing the Conference. Jonathan is Professor of Health Care Law at the University of Southampton. He has strong connections with the National Health Service and is Chair of the Hampshire Primary Care Trust and of the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards. He is a member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He is a Patron of CISters.

Invited keynote speakers include  Vernon Coaker, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime Reduction

Question Time ~ Invited Panel - Monday 10th December 2007 Panel Chair ~ Gillian Finch. Gillian regularly presents at local, regional and national conferences, and is committed to raising awareness of the issue, the empowerment of survivors, and the need for more services to assist survivors in their recovery.

The Panel will comprise a variety of key players working in the sexual violence and abuse, mental health, policy and police fields will respond and debate questions from delegates about how voluntary and statutory sector services meet the challenge of working together to address the social and health support needs for sexual violence survivors.

Displays Survivor Art Exhibitions and Specialist bookshop Survivors Trust Member Group Information and Displays

Who should attend? This conference will be of interest to:  Specialist voluntary sector agencies  Healthcare professionals  Police  Commissioning managers from PCTs and SHAs  Regional government staff  CSIP managers  Central government staff from Home Office, Department of Health, etc

Keynote Speakers Vernon Coaker MP Vernon Coaker MP is a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime Reduction. Before taking up his post at the Home Office, Mr Coaker was a government whip, from June 2003. He was previously Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Tessa Jowell, Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, and was also PPS to Estelle Morris when she was Secretary of State for Education. Mr Coaker has been MP for Gedling in Nottinghamshire since 1997. He is one of UNICEF’s 'Special Friends' in Parliament, and has visited Kosovo, Macedonia and Angola to see the work being done there.

Virginia Lovell, Deputy Lord Lieutenant Hampshire Virginia Lovell is a Magistrate, a Deputy to the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire and County President for St John Ambulance, as well as being Patron to Home-Start Meon Valley.

John Dunworth John is currently the Head of Interpersonal Violence at the Home Office where he was previously the Head of the Drugs Prevention Advisory Team. He has over 12 years experience in senior policy making roles, working closely with ministers and senior politicians across government sectors and departments.

Allison Anderson

Allison has been working for West Sussex Social Services since 1989, and in Mental Health Services since 1993. She is currently seconded to the Sussex Partnership NHS Trust as a Training and Development Officer, and is also a qualified Mental Health Social Worker. Allison has been offering training on working with survivors for 4 years.

Richard Curen Richard is Chair of the Survivors Trust and Director of Respond. He has worked as a counsellor, psychotherapist and manager of services in the sexual abuse field for the last 12 years. He trained at the Gestalt Centre London and completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Forensic Studies at the Portman Clinic. He is also a specialist advisor to the Metropolitan Police Services’ Project Sapphire.

Gillian Finch Gillian Finch is the founder of CIS’ters (Childhood Incest Survivors) which was set up in September 1995, and she is a past-Chair of The Survivors Trust (CIS’ters was one of the founding agencies). She remains a core member of the Victims of Violence and Abuse Prevention Programme (VVAPP), which is jointly hosted by the Home Office and Department of Health.

Bob Balfour Currently a Residential Support Worker for a Social Service/NHS Mental Health team, in a role he’s occupied for 8 years, Bob is part way through an Open University degree in Health and Social Care. Bob founded Survivors West Yorkshire (SWY) in 2000, an organisation supporting male and female victim/survivors and their families from its base in Bradford, and campaigns to raise the issues faced by victims/survivors with its main focus on adult provision.

Dave Gee Dave Gee is the co-author of the original thematic inspection report on rape, published in 2002. He is currently assisting the Police Standards Unit, Home Office Violent Crime Unit and ACPO towards improving facilities for rape victims. He has now completed work on publishing a report on Operation Matisse, a twelve month research project into the incidence of drug facilitated sexual assault.

Sharon Harvey Sharon Harvey, a Clinical Psychologist, will present her research on how women experience, or have experienced, shame and how relevant they feel shame issues are in working with issues of childhood abuse. Living on the edge … Sexual violence and abuse in context Conference Programme Day 1

Time Monday, 10th December 2007 Venue 8.45 onwards Accommodation Registration and Left Luggage Rootes Building

8.45 – 9.45 Conference Registration and Morning Coffee The Foyer, Ramphal Building 9.45 – 10.00 Welcome – Jonathan Montgomery, Conference Lecture Theatre Chair 10.00 – 10.15 Introductions – Richard Curen, Chair of Lecture Theatre The Survivors Trust 10.15 – 11.00 Sharon Harvey Lecture Theatre Shame: A Narrative Exploration 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee and networking The Foyer

11.30 – 12.30 Parallel Workshops Seminar Rooms

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch The Foyer

1.30 – 2.15 Gillian Finch and Bob Balfour Lecture Theatre Walking the Edge (Personal Reflections) 2.15 – 2.45 John Dunworth, Domestic and Sexual Violence Lecture Theatre Unit, Home Office National Service Standards for Sexual Violence/Abuse 2.45 – 3.15 Coffee and networking The Foyer

3.15 – 4.15 Parallel Workshops Seminar Rooms

4.15 – 4.30 Workshop Feedback Lecture Theatre

4.30 – 6.00 Free time

6.00 – 7.30 Question Time Lecture Theatre Chair: Gillian Finch Panel will include representatives from the Home Office. 8.00 ‘til late The Survivors Trust Annual Gala Dinner Chancellor’s Suite, Rootes Building

The Survivors Trust Annual General Meeting, Presentation of Accounts and Election of Officers to the National Executive Committee will take place between 5.00pm – 5.30pm in The Lecture Theatre, Ramphal Building.

Voting rights reserved for member groups.

Parallel Workshops - Monday, 10th December 11.30am – 12.30pm Helen Musgrove Funding Sub-group Recommendations Helen Musgrove has worked for the Home Office since 2001 (Title TBC) and has been head of sexual violence since 2004. Within this role she has led on implementation of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, improving support for victims and the investigation and prosecution of sexual offences, and development of the Cross Government Action Plan on Sexual Violence and Abuse.

Gillian Finch How is Hampshire Responding To The Gillian Finch is the founder of CIS’ters (Childhood Incest Survivors) which was set up in September 1995, and she is Cross Government Action Plan? a past-Chair of The Survivors Trust (CIS’ters was one of the founding agencies). She remains a core member of the Victims of Violence and Abuse Prevention Programme (VVAPP), which is jointly hosted by the Home Office and Department of Health.

Kathryn Gutteridge The Stranger Inside of Me – The Kathryn is a Consultant Midwife, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. She regularly highlights the impact Childbearing Experiences of Women of sexual abuse/trauma during childbirth. Kathryn has as Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse presented at a number of national conferences, and has written a number of articles on this issue.

David O’Driscoll What sexual abuse services should David is Assistant Director at Respond. His background is in learning disability services, both residential and day doing for victims of abuse who have a services. He is also working as a psychotherapist in the learning disability? Health Service, as a specialist loss and bereavement therapist in the learning disability team in Hertfordshire. David is a founder member of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability (IPD) and is currently chairing the training committee.

Kathryn Livingston Providing telephone support for adult Kathryn Livingston is a founding trustee and the voluntary survivors who have dissociative identities Co-ordinator for First Person Plural (FPP). An experienced mental health service user-consultant and trainer she designed and delivers FPP’s training programmes to raise awareness of dissociation and the complex dissociative conditions. She is author of the Mind booklet “Understanding Dissociative Disorders”.

Pauline Carruthers HOPE, A holistic approach to Healing Pauline has been working with survivors of sexual abuse since founding and coordinating HOPE Groups in 2003. Having a nursing background and working in mental health both within statutory services and voluntary groups she feels she has a flexible insight to survivor’s issues. She has undertaken numerous training courses and feels that she has gained much experience in working with survivors.

Parallel Workshops - Monday, 10th December 3.15pm – 4.15pm Peter Fletcher Motivational Fundraising Workshop Peter Fletcher has been fundraising for many years with organisations as diverse as The Salvation Army and Muscular Dystrophy Association in Australia. He currently works as the fundraising person at the University Hospital Birmingham Charities and is also very involved in the Institute of Fundraising, the professional body for UK Fundraisers.

Dr Valerie Sinason, Clinical and Ethical Issues that arise Valerie is a poet, writer, child and adult psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She has especially worked with in working with ritual abuse and disability and trauma, ritual abuse and Dissociative Dissociative Identity Disorder Identity Disorder.

Ingela Anderson Making the COMPACT work for you Ingela works for the Compact Advocacy Programme, where she represents organisations in cases where their statutory partners have breached the Compact. The Programme is based at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. Ingela has a history of working in the voluntary sector, most recently at Friends of the Earth. Michelle Barry Showcasing S*TAR (Southampton Michelle Barry is the Chair of the Southampton Sex and Relationships Education Group, and the Co-Chair of the Together Against Rape) Domestic Violence Forum. Michelle also works as a freelance trainer for Womankind Worldwide on the ‘Challenging Violence, Changing Lives’ education pack, and, since 2006, is an associate trainer for the Family Planning Association.

Terry Williams Challenges in Service Delivery, Based Terry Williams is a counsellor, trainer and supervisor for New Pathways in South Wales, a registered charity and on a Welsh Rape Crisis Centre counselling service for women, men, young people & children who are/have been victims of rape or sexual abuse. Terry has a specific interest in counselling Deaf people and hopes to develop a similar service for people with learning disabilities.

Vanessa Wilkes Responding to Invitations to Tender Vanessa is a researcher and funding manager with over 15 years experience. She has held senior posts within the (i.e. commissioning) public sector, where she has commissioned and undertaken multiple research and evaluation projects. She has also had significant experience of tendering in a freelance capacity and, as such, is able to view and analyse the process from both sides.

Living on the edge … Sexual violence and abuse in context Conference Programme Day 2

Time Tuesday 11th December 2007 Venue

8.30 – 9.15 Conference Registration and Morning Coffee The Foyer, Ramphal Building

9.15 – 9.30 Conference Update – Jonathan Montgomery, Lecture Theatre Conference Chair Vernon Coaker, MP, Under Secretary of State 9.30 – 10.15 for Violent Crime Reduction Lecture Theatre

The Cross Government Action Plan on Sexual Violence and Abuse Allison Anderson 10.15 – 10.45 The Sussex Partnership: Implementing the Lecture Theatre Mental Health Pilot Collaboration Project Virginia Lovell 10.45 – 11.00 Deputy Lord Lieutenant Hampshire Lecture Theatre Climbing the Mountain

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee and networking The Foyer

11.30 – 12.30 Parallel Workshops Seminar Rooms

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch The Foyer

1.30 – 2.15 Dave Gee Lecture Theatre Improving Outcomes for Victims of Rape

2.15 – 3.00 Richard Curen – Managing a therapeutic Lecture Theatre service for male and female survivors of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse.

3.00 – 3.30 Coffee and networking The Foyer

3.30 – 4.30 Parallel Workshops Seminar Rooms

4.30 – 5.00 Plenary And Evaluation Lecture Theatre

5.00 Close of Conference

Parallel Workshops - Tuesday 11th December 11.30am – 12.30pm Gillian Finch What happened when we said incest? Gillian Finch is the founder of CIS’ters (Childhood Incest Survivors) which was set up in September 1995, and she is a past-Chair of The Survivors Trust (CIS’ters was one of the founding agencies). She remains a core member of the Victims of Violence and Abuse Prevention Programme (VVAPP), which is jointly hosted by the Home Office and Department of Health. Colin Turner The sexual exploitation of children and Colin Turner brings over 25 years experience in child protection and was most recently head of the NSPCC’s young people facilitated through new Specialist Investigation Service shortly before joining and emerging technologies. the CEOP Centre just before its launch. He now holds New Technology – New Threats – New the role of Head of Safeguarding and Child Protection in the organisation and works to ensure that Responses safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of children remains at the heart of all business areas.

Dave Gee Improved Outcomes for Victims of Rape Dave Gee is the co-author of the original thematic inspection report on rape, published in 2002. He is – A Home Office Initiative currently assisting the Police Standards Unit, Home Office Violent Crime Unit and ACPO towards improving facilities for rape victims. He has now completed work on publishing the report on Operation Matisse, a twelve month research project into the incidence of drug facilitated sexual assault. Jan Sutton Understanding self-injury and its Jan Sutton is the author of Healing the Hurt Within: Understand Self-injury and Self-harm, and Heal the relationship to childhood trauma Emotional Wounds, revised 3rd edition published November 2007, and founder of SIARI (Self-Injury and Related Issues) website www.siari.co.uk (2001-2007). Dilys Davy and Deborah Mills North and South – The Challenges of Dilys Davy is the manager of Women’s Support Network; she has worked for WSN for the last 10 years. Her being an Independent Sexual Violence background is in domestic violence although she has Advisor worked with the issue of sexual abuse for many years. In 2002 she developed the WSN sexual violence service in Middlesbrough. Deborah Mills is an ISVA working for WSN in the Middlesbrough area; she has developed the advocacy service over the last 3 years but has worked for WSN since 2001 both as an Advocate and a Support Worker dealing with Domestic and Sexual Violence.

Kathryn Gutteridge The Stranger Inside of Me – The Kathryn is a Consultant Midwife, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. She regularly highlights the Childbearing Experiences of Women as impact of sexual abuse/trauma during childbirth. Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Kathryn has presented at a number of national conferences, and has written a number of articles on this issue.

Parallel Workshops - Tuesday 11th December 3.15pm – 4.15pm Bob Balfour Currently a Residential Support Worker for a Social A View From Inside The Box II Service/NHS Mental Health team, in a role he’s occupied for 8 years, Bob is part way through an Open Survivors Matrix – A Sexual Violence & University degree in Health and Social Care. Bob Abuse Hub For Bradford. “Can founded Survivors West Yorkshire (SWY) in 2000, an partnerships really be made to work organisation supporting male and female victim/survivors and their families from its base in within a sexual violence/abuse context? Bradford, and campaigns to raise the issues faced by Reflections on the progress made and victims/survivors with its main focus on adult the issues to overcome in Bradford”. provision. Claire Davies Understanding Self-injury Claire Davies has a degree in psychology and a lengthy background in working with children and young people with special needs within educational settings. Claire is currently the senior counsellor at the Young Person’s Advisory Service based in the city centre of Liverpool. Fay Maxted and Liz Campbell 2007 and Beyond – Making a Difference Fay Maxted is the Chief Executive of The Survivors Trust, national umbrella agency for specialist rape, sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse services representing 125 specialist voluntary sector services. Fay represents The Survivors Trust on a range of This workshop is available only to members of the national committees and advisory groups. Survivors Trust Liz Campbell is the Admin and Development Worker at TST. She was previously a volunteer at Rugby RoSA and provided artwork for ‘The Survivors Guide to Recovery from Rape or Sexual Abuse’, co-written by Fay Maxted. Sue Hampson Making it Safe to Say in Scotland Sue Hampson is Safe to Say National Training Coordinator for SAMH, where she is delivering a Training for Trainers Programme to a range of voluntary and statutory sector agencies throughout Scotland. She has worked as a counsellor in the NHS, in GP practices and a mental health team. Allison Anderson The Sussex Partnership: Implementing Allison has been working for West Sussex Social Services since 1989, and in Mental Health Services since 1993. the Mental Health Pilot Collaboration She is currently seconded to the Sussex Partnership NHS Project – A Workshop Trust as a Training and Development Officer, and is also a qualified Mental Health Social Worker. Allison has been offering training on working with survivors for 4 years. Lisa Markham TBC Awaiting full biography

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A restricted number of display opportunities for external agencies are available at £25.00 per display (free to members of the Survivors Trust – please book in advance). Sponsorship opportunities include conference pack insertions at £50.00 and delegate pens and pads (sponsor to supply).

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