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.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) For Black and Ethnic Families In The UK Child Protection System
In July 2020, AFRUCA held an online event to explore the inequalities for Black and Ethnic children within the health and social care sectors and what changes needed to be made. Following this event, a number of recommendations were put forward.
We would like to revisit the outcomes of our 2020 conference by holding a roundtable event for professionals, parents and communities. We want to examine current issues within the child protection arena and explore what changes have been made since our event. We will also explore the role for AFRUCA to continue advocating for Black and Ethnic children and families, while highlighting the gaps in policy development, service design and delivery within the Child Protection system.
Date: 16th May 2024
Time: 11 am – 12.30 pm
Venue: Zoom (Online)
To register, click here
For further information, contact Deborah Bakare, AFRUCA Child Protection Service Team Leader at info@afruca.org
This event is held to mark AFRUCA’s 23rd Anniversary
Are You a Runner, Adventurer, a Champion?
Run for AFRUCA and help us to promote the well-being and protection of children in Black and Ethnic communities.
We offer free places to top running and adventure events across the UK in 2024/25.
Email Vici Fairhurst at vici@afruca.org for further information and to register your interest.
Manchester Network on Serious Violence and Child Exploitation
We held a very successful consultative meeting with statutory agencies and community groups across Manchester on Friday 22 March to discuss the establishment of a Manchester Network on Serious Violence and Child Exploitation. We are delighted all participants agreed to work with AFRUCA to establish this new network with the first meeting planned to hold on 24 May 2024 at 12:30pm at AFRUCA office. Community and youth groups across Manchester are welcome to attend. Food and Refreshments will be provided. We will also help meet the transport costs of the grass-root community/youth groups attending.
RSVP: stephen@Afruca.org
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.
Protect Me, Too: A Consultative Meeting With Black Youth In London and Manchester
We held an online Consultative Meeting with young people across London and Manchester on 5 April 2024. They discussed challenges faced by young people like themselves and noted lack of understanding by decision-makers of vulnerabilities young people experience around cultural clashes at home, risks of criminal exploitation and going missing from home. They explored need for resources dedicated to spaces for young people, and how systems and structures like Stop and Search oppress young Black people and treat them like adults instead of children.
We are exploring opportunities to take further the ideas generated at the consultative meeting.
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: April 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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