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Professor Michelle McManus

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Manchester Metropolitan University

  1. See safeguarding and risk reduction as a collective responsibility
  2. Apply ‘professional curiosity’ carefully and broadly
  3. Identify and share effective practice
We hear a lot about what goes wrong but I would advocate that we need to be louder about what goes right.

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Michelle McManus is a Professor in Safeguarding and Violence Prevention and Co-Director of the Institute for Children’s Futures at Manchester Metropolitan University. Michelle’s expertise is in multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, working across systems, people, and organisations to improve responses and make communities safer. Her work examines all forms of exploitation, but with a particular focus on child abuse and exploitation, including CSE, CCE, County Lines, as well as domestic abuse and sexual abuse. Recent commissioned work includes a Thematic Review of Child Practice Reviews (CPRs) in Wales and Shaping the Future of Safeguarding in Wales – funded by the National Independent Safeguarding Board (NISB) Wales. This has led to the development of various outputs, such as The Collective Safeguarding Responsibility Model: 12Cs and a prototype for Local Children’s Safeguarding Partnerships to assess their effectiveness. Additional work has been identified as Best Practice by the College of Policing and National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) through Operation Provide – a co-responder approach between police and health to domestic abuse incidents.

Michelle was previously the Head of Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University where she was successful in securing research funds from the Home Office, Department for Education, Welsh Government and more local projects with police forces, local authorities and charities. Michelle co-created the original Kent Internet Risk Assessment Tool (KIRAT), an intelligence tool used by law enforcement agencies in prioritising those indecent image offenders most likely to be contact sexually abusing children. The KIRAT tool is now used across 24 EU countries, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

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