Join Our Network
By joining the NWG Network we can make a real difference. Our membership levels cover individuals, small teams, projects to whole organisations and police forces and will help signpost you to the information and advice relevant to you.
Network membership
There are several ways to join the network; as a lead member of a Level 1 or Level 2 membership or as an additional member to an existing membership account. You can also sign up for our themed e-newsgroups to keep up-to-date.
If you are unsure which membership you need then please get in touch.
Membership
Membership is an annual subscription
As a charity, we host a membership scheme to protect and ensure as much as we can, that our information reaches the right people. As a not-for-profit organisation, all subscriptions go towards ensuring we continue to support practitioners working in this field.
All named additional members within Level 1 / Level 2 membership accounts have individual logins and benefit from all that the NWG has to offer.
Level 1 membership
£99.00 / year
Up to 30 practitioners included
Level 2 membership
£500.00 / year
Up to 250 practitioners included
Member Benefits
Our Specialist Team can offer the following to subscribed members:
- Project or Service Evaluation
- Case, Service and Investigation Reviews
- Supervision
- Policy and procedure reviews,
- Case and Investigation reviews,
- Security review of children’s homes from the unique perspective of CSE
- Serious Case Reviews (SCR)
- Youth Participation Support
- Inquiries
Members can access our resources sections which are regularly updated and hold over 2,000 CSE/CE and Human Trafficking resources including policies and protocols, reports, examples of effective practice and links to other useful resources as well as NWG toolkits and benchmarking tools.
Please see our Offer Leaflet for all the benefits of membership.
Our public resource section holds a range of community-focused resources, research documents and reports.
Say Something if You See Something (SSSS) is a community awareness programme. A resource that includes sample letters, posters, leaflets, documents, legislation and training aimed at the hotel and licensing trade, small businesses, private Hire/Taxi, Public Transport, Food Outlets and more. Two hotel chains and many Local Authorities/forces have adopted the SSSS campaign.
Our website and newsletters offer news, blogs, national events and a national service directory, all of which the network can contribute to.
Member’s Surgery
Our weekly member’s surgery is popular and offers the chance for an appointment to be made for 1 hour and have a 1:1/Microsoft Teams consultation with the whole team together this has proved extremely helpful to our network.
Membership Types
Level 1 membership
A Level 1 membership allows you to have up to 30 colleagues from your team named on the account and access all the member benefits including resources, direct contact with our specialist team, discounted training and personal development events. This membership is also the most suitable for individual accounts. Please note all members have individual logins and passwords, these must not be shared.
Level 2 membership
A Level 2 membership subscription is suitable for a whole police force, a Local Authority or a large third-sector organisation and has a limit of up to 250 additional named members.
All additional named members under the account must have the same business email address e.g. @gov.uk, @apoliceforce.police.pnn.uk (multi-agency teams are welcome, contact us to allow mixed emails) and will have access to all the benefits of membership including resources as well as direct contact with our specialist team and discounted training and personal development events.
Please note all members have individual logins and passwords, these must not be shared.
Special Interest Forums, Webinars & Training
Our special interest forums offer opportunities for practitioners to discuss and debate issues relating to the sensitive nature of Child Exploitation (CE), network, share good practices, discuss challenges and seek solutions. Open discussions take place in a secure and confidential environment.
Special Interest Forums include; Exploitation and Diversity, Police and Justice, Health, Faith, Transitions, and Policy Forum.
Our regular webinars present an excellent learning opportunity to hear from specialists in Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking in a small group setting, which is conducive to learning and discussion. Subscribed members receive a discount on the cost of seminars.
We can offer and deliver commissioned and bespoke training – in-depth events providing an exploration of health, law enforcement, safeguarding and youth and parent participation in the context of Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking. Contact us for more details.
E-Newsgroup
Keep up-to-date with the news from around the network including consultations, new resources and research, upcoming seminars and training dates, conference news and other news relevant to the work being done around the abuse of children through exploitation and trafficking.
Public Resources
Our public resource library offers open access to relevant documents, research items, reports and community-focused resources.
These are all available to download without a subscription to our membership but you will need to register for a free account.
