Our Supported Systems Programme, delivered by the Bluestar Project (UK’s Best Practice Standard for the delivery of pre-trial therapy and support services), will:

• Map current children’s support and prevention provision.
• Identify good practice and service gaps.
• Showcase best practice models, like the Barnhaus Child House, specialist voluntary sector and collaborative commissioning, through a series of Learning Events.
• Provide Bluestar training for pre-trial and partnership working;
• Establish Lived Experience networks to co-design local commissioning and services.
• Build readiness for collaborative commissioning and trauma-informed practice across the voluntary sector, health, CAMHS and justice sector in line with Child House principles.

While delivery of our programme this year sits largely at a local level (Dorset, Swindon & Wiltshire & BANES), we are happy to offer nationally alongside this a programme of learning events and reflective spaces.

All events are free and delivered online via Zoom.

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Learning Events

Working with Lived Experience
29th January 2026 12:00–2:30pm

Led by Candice Harris, Bluestar National Lived Experience Lead and Gemma Halliwell, Bluestar Director  

This Supported Systems Learning Event introduces the Quilt Model, a new six-stage theoretical framework that redefines what hope and healing from child sexual abuse mean from the perspective of lived experience. Join Candice and Gemma in conversation as they explore best-practice approaches to participation, co-production, and leadership by connecting young people and families. Participants will be invited to join the ongoing Lived Experience Network Spaces as follow-up sessions to explore how the model can be put into practice.

Best Practice Commissioning
26th February 2026 12:00–2:30pm

Led by Emma Harewood, Bluestar Director and Shelley Shaw, Bluestar Practice Advisor  

This Supported Systems Learning Event introduces Best Practice approaches to commissioning services for children, young people and families who have experienced sexual abuse. It explores the current challenges of funding CSA services, and the benefits of working towards joint commissioning arrangements across areas that enable co-ordinated care at a service level. Emma and Shelley will guide you through a range of different commissioning models/structures to support you in your thinking for your local area.

Best Practice Children’s Service Design
2nd March 2026 12:00–2:30pm

Led by Gemma Halliwell and Emma Harewood, Bluestar Directors and Candice Harris, Bluestar National Lived Experience Lead 

This Supported Systems Learning Event introduces Best Practice approaches to designing joined-up multi-agency services for children, young people and families that have experienced CSA. The team will explore the latest evidence-base around what works to promote both healing and systems-change, alongside best practice examples from UK and international contexts e.g., Child House/Barnahus, specialist voluntary creative arts models, health pathfinders and SARC integrated services. The event considers the importance of diversity of service provision across the CSA sector, how to build on the strengths of existing service responses to avoid duplication and how to ensure the voice of the child remains central in delivery of services.

Multi-agency Case Management Processes
11th March 2026 12:00–2:30pm

Led by Emma Harewood, Bluestar Director and Sonia Watts, Bluestar Practice Advisor

This Supported Systems Learning Event introduces how to create joined up multi-agency case management processes that ensure robust governance of cases at a safeguarding board/strategic and frontline service level. The event explores how to work specifically with Barnahus/Child House Principles to set up Multi-Disciplinary Interagency (MDIA) spaces to coordinate the response for children after CSA including information sharing, practice protocols, case review and feedback mechanisms that enable the effective monitoring of risk/safeguarding, assessment and actions plans – while keeping the voice and choices of the child at the centre of care.

Data Recording & Evaluation for CSA services
21st May 2026 12:00–2:30

Led by Emma Harewood and Gemma Halliwell Bluestar Directors   

This Supported Systems Learning Event introduces how to develop effective data recording and best practice evaluation principles for monitoring child sexual abuse cases at a strategic, systems and service level. The event will explore available national data; prevalence estimates and consider the key indicators required to build robust datasets that enable the full visibility of demand to be seen across local areas. The event will also explore how to calculate wait list times effectively and provide key insights on how to make the most of your service-level data to lever systems change in your area. Finally, the event will learn from the international evaluation/research about measuring the impact of effective CSA support services and the criminal justice system.

Utilising Theory of Change for CSA Services
18th June 2026 12:00–2:30pm

Led by Emma Harewood and Gemma Halliwell Bluestar Directors and Candice Harris, Bluestar National Lived Experience Lead

This Supported Systems Learning Event introduces how to develop and apply Theory of Change frameworks to strengthen systems and service-level design for local areas supporting children and families affected by sexual abuse. The event will explore how to map pathways from interventions to outcomes, identify key assumptions, and define meaningful indicators across multi-agency partnerships. Participants will learn how Theory of Change can identify gaps in provision, strengthen commissioning decisions, and support the development of robust evaluation frameworks that ensure the child’s voice remains at the centre of systems change in their local area.

Reflective Practice Spaces (online)

Conversation Spaces for Systems Change
16th February 2026 12:30–2:00pm
12th March 2026 12:30–2:00pm

Led by Candice Harris, Bluestar National Lived Experience Lead and Gemma Halliwell, Bluestar Director 

A series of multi-agency online conversational and reflective spaces, where practitioners can talk about the complexities of working with child sexual abuse across agencies. We will come together to explore fears, struggles and successes of working within current systems of prevention and support. This is an opportunity to build a deeper understanding of individual responses and connect thinking together around how systems change must always reflect the voice of the child.

Lived Experience Network Spaces
26th February 2026 12:30–1:30pm
26th March 2026 12:30–1:30pm

Led by Candice Harris, Bluestar National Lived Experience Lead and Gemma Halliwell, Bluestar Director 

Following the Lived Experience Learning Event, practitioners are invited to join network spaces designed to translate the Quilt Model into practice. These practitioner-led collaborative sessions provide opportunities to build practical tools and resources for designing, delivering, and evaluating lived experience groups and feedback mechanisms. Participants will work together to develop approaches that centre the voices of children and families, ensuring meaningful participation and co-production remain at the heart of local service design and delivery.

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