AFRUCA SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN
Help us to protect more children in our community
With offices in London and Manchester, we work in UK Black and Ethnic communities to protect and safeguard children from abuse, modern slavery and exploitation. We tackle cultural and religious practices that harm children.
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Protect Me, Too: A Consultative Meeting With Black Youth In London and Manchester
We are holding an online consultation on Friday 5 April 2024 with young people in London and Manchester.
The event is to help gather the view-points of participants about the daily challenges faced in the community and on social media that can increase risks of harm for young people in both cities. We want young people to tell us about what should happen to make life safer for them.
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Manchester Child Exploitation and Youth Violence Network of Professionals and Community Groups
Following our successful event in January 2024 to explore solutions to combat the growing problem of child exploitation and youth violence across Manchester, we are holding a consultative meeting to discuss the establishment of a Manchesterwide network
Date: Friday 22 March 2024
Venue: AFRUCA Centre, Universal Square, Manchester
RSVP: brian@Afruca.org
Consultative Meeting on Child Protection In Faith and Community Groups
AFRUCA Safeguarding Children held a special online Consultative Meeting on Tuesday, 13 February 2024 to explore the role of faith organisations in the protection of children in Black and ethnic communities across the UK. Over 60 faith and community representatives, professionals and policy-makers attended.
We organised this consultative meeting to explore with participants how we can work together to enhance child protection and safeguarding in Black and Ethnic faith organisations, looking at four broad areas: empowering faith leaders; building connections, supporting congregants and building capacity of faith organisations.
Work to advance key recommendations is in progress.
AFRUCA Psychotherapy Service For Children At Risk or Returning Home From Foster Care
The AFRUCA Psychotherapy service provides short-term, one to one, confidential and culturally appropriate therapy service for children (5-18 years) who have been involved in the local authority child protection system because of child/domestic abuse and/or who are being reunified with their birth parents after a period in foster care. Using a range of approaches, our psychotherapists provide support for children to help them build emotional well-being, rebuild trust, emotional bond and attachment with their birth parents.
Community Engagement and Education are at the heart of our work at AFRUCA to prevent child abuse, trafficking, exploitation and modern slavery.
Contact us to arrange a session delivered by our staff and volunteer Children’s Champions for your agency, church, mosque, school or community group.
Child Protection Community Engagement and Education
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We are delighted to release the 4th Edition of our very popular publication for parents in Black and Ethnic communities across the UK - Understanding Child Protection In The UK - A Guide For Parents In Black and Ethnic Communities.
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AFRUCA News: February 2024 Activities
We held a range of community based activities to help educate about basic child protection and safeguarding needs of children.
AFRUCA Public Facing Events Calendar
We’ve Been Safeguarding Children Since 2001
Prompted by the deaths of a number of newly arrived child ren in the UK, Debbie Ariyo, a former Civil Servant, founded AFRUCA in 2001 to address child safeguarding and child trafficking issues in African diaspora communities and provide services to help support children and families and rehabilitate victims.
Debbie Ariyo OBE - Founder and CEO
AFRUCA’s 20th Anniversary Documentary Video
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