Dr Tracee Green is Head of the Centre for Child Protection (CCP) and Reader in the School of Social Sciences (SSS) at the University of Kent. She provides academic and strategic leadership for CCP, with oversight of its outreach, research, postgraduate, and professional training portfolios.

A registered social worker, Tracee has 14 years’ frontline experience working with children and families. Her research focuses on child protection, trauma-informed practice, and innovative education-based approaches to professional learning and development. Tracee was Principal Investigator on an ESRC-funded collaboration between CCP and Kent Police, developing a serious game simulation to support trauma-informed policing with young people who have experienced child sexual exploitation. She also contributed to a REPHRAIN-funded project creating a synthetic database for research into online harms, and is currently Co-Investigator on a Youth Endowment Fund study evaluating the impact of Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect.

Liz Hubbuck is a safeguarding specialist, keynote speaker, and published author of Hear Me (Mirror Books), bringing together lived experience and over 20 years of professional practice to challenge thinking, strengthen safeguarding responses, and drive meaningful change.Having worked across Youth Justice, Children’s Services, policing, and the voluntary sector, Liz has spent her career supporting vulnerable children and young people, with a particular focus on exploitation, trauma, safeguarding, and the importance of ensuring children’s voices shape the systems designed to protect them.Through both her professional and lived experience, Liz offers a unique perspective on what it feels like to be a child navigating harm, vulnerability, and disclosure, and what adults, organisations, and systems can do differently to create safety and trust.
Her approach combines strategic safeguarding insight with powerful real-world experience, helping professionals move beyond policy and procedure to understand safeguarding from the child’s perspective.
A recipient of the Hampshire High Sheriff Award for Youth Engagement, Liz is a sought-after speaker whose thought-provoking presentations inspire reflection, challenge assumptions, and equip audiences with practical insights that improve safeguarding culture, practice, and outcomes.

Michael Conroy is founder/director of Men At Work CIC, which trains professionals in multiple sectors (including Education, Social Work, Early Help, Mental Health, Youth Justice and Youth Work) in having constructive dialogues with boys and young men about what the world invites them to believe, do and want – as men – and the implications this has for women and girls. The work is strengths-based and founded on developing the twin capacities of critical thinking and empathy. Since 20021 almost 3000 professionals have taken part in the ’12 Dialogues’ training and many have facilitated regular, ongoing sessions with boys and young men of diverse demographics in a wide range of settings

Abi Billinghurst is the founder and CEO of Abianda, a pioneering London-based organisation that supports young women and girls affected by criminal exploitation and violence. Since founding Abianda in 2011, Abi has led the organisation’s growth and mission to transform how services are delivered to girls and young women. She brings over 20 years of experience working with and managing services for vulnerable young people across the violence against women and girls, youth, and criminal justice sectors. Abi has dedicated her career to creating inclusive, participatory models of practice and is focused on effecting a culture change in how services are designed and delivered to young women, ensuring that their voices are central to the decision-making process.

Jimmy Belmar is the Director of JMB Insight Solutions Ltd and has more than 35 years’ experience working within policing, including over 30 years as a detective.
He has over 20 years’ experience dealing with serious and organised crime and, in particular, the harm that organised crime causes within communities. His work has included the investigation and disruption of organised crime groups, county lines, criminal exploitation, safeguarding vulnerable people and developing partnership approaches to tackling serious and organised crime.
For five years Jimmy was the Senior Investigating Officer for Project Medusa, Merseyside Police’s response to county lines criminality. This involved not only pursuing those responsible for organised drug supply and exploitation, but working with partners to understand and reduce the wider harm caused to children, vulnerable adults, families and communities.
Jimmy has extensive experience of bringing together policing, local authorities, housing, safeguarding and other partners to develop practical responses to organised crime and vulnerability.
Now through JMB Insight Solutions, Jimmy uses that experience to help organisations better understand emerging threats, strengthen safeguarding and develop effective multi agency responses to serious and organised crime and community harm.

Renae brings over 25 years’ experience working in the social justice field and with people with lived experience of injustice, exploitation, and exclusion, including five years as executive director of services at Refugee Council. Renae developed an ambitious strategy for services to refugees’ access to quality support to secure safety and rebuild their lives in the UK. Renae has held senior roles at the No Accommodation Network (NACCOM), and Refugee Action as well as leading her own consultancy where she successfully led their strategic development with clients, supporters, funders and peers. Renae is a recognised spokesperson for refugees’ rights, frequently providing expert perspectives on the UK refugee protection system in national media, and enabling refugees to influence policy and practice.

Sharon is the UK National Lead for Action for Children’s Serious Organised Crime Early Intervention Services.

She is a qualified social worker with experience working in various youth justice services, working at Action for Children for the last 12 years.

Action for Children currently have 5 Serious Organised Crime Early Intervention Services across Scotland, England and Wales that Sharon is responsible for implementing and overseeing.  She sits on the DIVERT workstream for Criminal Exploitation as part of Scotland’s Serious Organised Crime Strategy

Dr Tracee Green is Head of the Centre for Child Protection (CCP) and Reader in the School of Social Sciences (SSS) at the University of Kent. She provides academic and strategic leadership for CCP, with oversight of its outreach, research, postgraduate, and professional training portfolios.

A registered social worker, Tracee has 14 years’ frontline experience working with children and families. Her research focuses on child protection, trauma-informed practice, and innovative education-based approaches to professional learning and development. Tracee was Principal Investigator on an ESRC-funded collaboration between CCP and Kent Police, developing a serious game simulation to support trauma-informed policing with young people who have experienced child sexual exploitation. She also contributed to a REPHRAIN-funded project creating a synthetic database for research into online harms, and is currently Co-Investigator on a Youth Endowment Fund study evaluating the impact of Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect.