Workshop Description

The StopSO 2025 Annual Conference

7th November 2025

Location: Mary Ward House Ltd, 5-7 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SN 

Speakers and Presentations:

StopSO Patron, Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen

Nina will be presenting her latest insights. Nina is a leading authority in child protection, trauma recovery, and the wellbeing of frontline responders.

Nina’s global impact is evident through her leadership in groundbreaking initiatives, including the ReDirection research project, which engaged over 56,000 CSA offenders to reshape prevention strategies, and the Our Voice – Global Survivor Survey, which gathered insights from 22,300 survivors to inform victim-centered interventions. In her role as Sub-Group Chair within INTERPOL’s Specialists Group on Crimes Against Children, Nina champions international collaboration in offender management and victim services. Her You Are Enough™ peer support groups offer vital guidance to parents of child victims, complementing her extensive training of thousands of professionals worldwide.

Simon Bailey QPM

Simon will once again set the tone scene in his patron’s welcome to delegates. His energy, knowledge and expertise is the perfect start to our conference! We are all grateful, that in his role as one of our patrons, Simon will be around for the day engaging with delegates.

Simon served as a police officer for 35 years, the last 8 as the Chief Constable of Norfolk and the National Policing Lead for Child Protection. Since retiring Simon has built a portfolio of responsibilities working in the child protection and safeguarding arena and continues through these appointments his passion for protecting the vulnerable. He was awarded a CBE in the Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours and serves as a Deputy Lieutenant in Norfolk. Simon has a Masters degree from Cambridge University and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bedford.

Cath Cox – A victim focused approach to tackling online CSAE

Cath will talk about how we as professionals can shift the approach from an offender based approach to tackling investigative leads for online CSAE, to a victim based approach. This approach focuses on the children behind the images – helping society understand that there are no such things as ‘victimless’ or ‘image only’ crimes. Humanising the children in the imagery seeks to have a deterrent effect, helping people who may be struggling with their own thoughts and behaviours, who may be impacted by an awareness that CSAM consumption supports a business model where more children are abused to meet demand. What impact could this have on society, on families of offenders, and on us as we collectively seek to shine a light on CSAM offending, and recognise it for what is truly is.

More wonderful speaker to be announced very soon!

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