{"id":117,"date":"2023-07-10T10:31:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/applied-health-research\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2024-07-23T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T11:13:37","slug":"international-partnership-to-improve-health-and-wellbeing-of-vulnerable-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/applied-health-research\/international-partnership-to-improve-health-and-wellbeing-of-vulnerable-children\/","title":{"rendered":"International Partnership to Improve Health and Wellbeing of Vulnerable Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since 2015 The School of Health and Society has collaborated with a non-governmental organisation in Cambodia (M\u2019Lop Tapang) in an international partnership designed to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable children and to support the inter-professional development of health and social care colleagues from the UK and Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018M\u2019Lop\u2019 means shade or protection in the Khmer language. The Tapang tree, also known as the umbrella tree, provides shelter from the elements. In 2003 M\u2019Lop Tapang<\/a> was co-founded by British nurse Maggie Eno MBE with support from a small group of foreigners and local Cambodian people. It began as a simple initiative to feed and offer safety to six children who slept under a large Tapang tree on the beach every night and who were extremely vulnerable to exploitation. The initiative quickly blossomed into a much wider programme. Today M\u2019Lop Tapang\u2019s services reach over 7,500 children, young people and families in the Sihanoukville area, Cambodia. M\u2019Lop Tapang provides disadvantaged children and families\u2019 access to learning tools, specialised services, resources, and the opportunities they need to build a better future. In addition, M\u2019Lop Tapang offers regular meals, safe temporary shelter, medical care, education and training, counselling, family support \/ reintegration and protection from all types of abuse, and they work to increase community awareness about issues relative to children\u2019s safety and children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past five years the CYP@Salford Research Group has worked collaboratively with M\u2019Lop Tapang, and a registered charity in England (SicKids<\/a>) to support outreach clinics in Sihanoukville, Cambodia twice per year (until the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which drastically restricted international travel), a monthly telemedicine clinic providing advice and support to the medical team at M\u2019Lop Tapang, and a programme of research and educational support including evaluation of some of M\u2019Lop Tapang\u2019s programmes. Through this work we have been learning how initiatives developed in south east Asia could be adapted for use in the UK, for example the ChildSafe<\/em><\/a> initiative. The University of Salford has become the first higher education institution in the world to receive Child Safe<\/em> accreditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through our international partnerships we have been considering seven steps to improving the protection of children and young people:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Improve education<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Increasing employability and employment<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Decrease poverty<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Tackle neglect<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Recognise your role as a community leader<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Empower children and young people<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Build child safe communities with children and young people at their hearts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Professor Andrew Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Professor Tony Long<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Maggie Eno MBE (external)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Dr Dora Dim (external)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    SicKids charity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    M\u2019Lop Tapang (Cambodia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Outputs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cBoys are like gold\u201d : the gendered differences in sexual violence against street-involved children in southwest Cambodia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Safeguarding children and young people<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Parents\u2019 points of view: an evaluation of the M\u2019Lop Tapang special needs programme, Cambodia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Life on the tracks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    From sick kids to SicKids!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Living on a railway line : turning the tide of child abuse and exploitation in the UK and overseas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Building child safe communities with children and young people at their hearts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Written evidence submitted by Dr Andrew Rowland to the Public Bill Committee regarding the Modern Slavery Bill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Contact:<\/strong> <\/a>Professor Andrew Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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