Adults Partnership Conference: Taking a life course perspective to adult sexual exploitation
Adults Partnership Conference: Taking a life course perspective to adult sexual exploitation
Delivered online using Teams
09:30 - 15:30 Thursday, 26 February 2026
Overview
A life course perspective is an approach that examines an individual's life as a whole. It recognises that development is lifelong and influenced by intersecting social, economic and environmental factors.
Our adults Partnership Conference will explore how to take a life course perspective to adult sexual exploitation. Taking place online, we will consider how both support needs and opportunities can present throughout a person’s life.
Speakers will share insights from people with lived experience, practice and research to help inform how we understand and respond to the sexual exploitation of adults.
Learning outcomes
This event will support learners to:
- Explore how taking a life course approach can inform responses to sexual exploitation.
- Consider the challenges and opportunities for safeguarding across the life course.
- Reflect upon learning from people with lived experience, practice and research in this area.
- Identify opportunities to develop more effective, trauma-informed and person-centred support.
Speakers
Speakers will be confirmed shortly.
Please note that the speakers in this conference will be recorded. Question and answer sessions and breakout sessions will not be recorded.
Designed for
The Partnership Conference is aimed at all professions working in adult social care from across the Research in Practice Partner network, including Heads of Service, practice leaders, workforce development leaders, team managers and practitioners.
Booking
Request your place through the button at the top of this page. We are able to offer up to four places per Research in Practice adults Partner at this conference. For queries and information, please contact our events team.
This conference will be delivered using Microsoft Teams. Please note, adding this event to your calendar does not confirm your place at this event. Details of how to access the event will be sent a week before only to those with a confirmed place.
Audience Types
Commissioners
People with lived experience and their families
Policy makers
Practitioners
Principal Social Worker (PSW)
Senior leaders
Senior practitioners
Residential / care home workers
Social workers
Strategic leads
Team leaders
Workforce development teams
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Safeguarding | Person-centred practice | The role of social workers | Mental capacity | Effective assessments and outcome based support planning | Direct work with individuals and families | Assuring good social work practice and development | Values and ethics | Promoting and supporting critical analysis and decision-making
CQC - Safe | Effective | Caring | Well-led
PCF - Intervention and skills | Critical reflection and analysis | Knowledge | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Diversity and equality | Values and ethics | Professionalism
RCOT - Understanding relationship | Service users | Develop intervention | Collaborative | Communication | Identify needs
Exploitation
Exploitation refers to where an individual or group takes advantage of an imbalance of power to coerce, manipulate or deceive a child or adult in exchange for something. It can take many forms including sexual, financial and criminal exploitation. Local authorities have a responsibility to safeguard children, young people and adults from exploitation.
Transitional Safeguarding: transformation, not just training
As the concept of Transitional Safeguarding gains traction around the country, Research in Practice has been privileged to work with many local areas, supporting them to develop and shape local innovation.
Safeguarding children and young people from exploitation
Working to enable an effective safeguarding response for children and young people who are, or are at risk of, being exploited.
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