CECAN Webinar - Embracing complexity: Using systems thinking to improve responses to...

CECAN Webinar – Embracing complexity: Using systems thinking to improve responses to child criminal exploitation – Lessons from and for system thinking in public service delivery Presenter: Jo Reilly, Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge Webinar Overview: Drawing on the findings of a Policy Fellowship with the Royal Academy of Engineering, Jo Reilly discusses how the application of systems thinking principles might help law enforcement agencies better protect vulnerable people from criminal exploitation. The talk will cover; A brief overview of child criminal exploitation (CCE): explaining what we mean by CCE; what we know about its key drivers; what we know about what can make children and adults vulnerable to exploitation; and outlining how current child protection systems have not been designed to respond to extra-familial harm (sometimes also referred to as risk outside the home); Moving from displacing risk to removing risk: providing examples of how risk is often displaced rather than removed; describing the dangers of inadvertently pushing risk to more hidden, harmful places; providing suggestions on how Home Office and law enforcement agencies might better understand and predict the ripple effects of disruption interventions; Placing this thinking in a wider context: in a context of struggling public service and strain on public finances, how realistic is it to talk about applying system thinking principles to reform mindset and practice in this space?