Multi-Agency Violence & Exploitation (MAVE) Panel Referrals
Lambeth’s Multiagency Violence & Exploitation Panel aims to add value to our efforts to safeguard children and young adults (up to age 25) from exploitation and serious violence. The panel meets fortnightly to:
- Help unlock progress on an individual's protection or safety plan where professionals need to escalate any blockages or issues that haven't been resolved through strategy and professionals' meetings
- Agree multiagency action to mitigate risks to a group or cohort of children or young adults who are experiencing, or at risk of, exploitation and serious violence
- Agree activity to disrupt identified adult perpetrators of exploitation or violence
- Develop multi-agency activity to safeguard locations where children or young adults are at risk of, or experiencing, exploitation or serious violence
Make a referral
Individuals
Make a referral for a child or young person for support from MAVE and/or Lambeth’s Contextual Safeguarding Service.
Groups
Make a referral for a group of children or young adults at risk of, or experiencing, harm outside the family
Locations
Make a referral for a group of children or young adults at risk of, or experiencing, harm outside the family
Possible Perpetrators
Make a referral to flag a potential adult perpetrator of exploitation.
How to get help
In an emergency
If someone is at immediate risk of significant harm, please call 999. Do not delay.
Make an initial referral for support
MAVE is not the first point of referral for individuals. Contact Lambeth’s Integrated Referral Hub on 020 7926 5555 and follow up with a completed Multi-agency Referral Form.
Questions about MAVE?
If you have questions about Lambeth’s Multiagency Violence & Exploitation Panel, please email.
MAVE Terms of Reference
To find out more about how MAVE works, download the terms of reference.
Exploitation Risk Matrix
Use the Lambeth Child Exploitation Risk Matrix to help identify and clarify concerns and actions.
Language Toolkit
Use language that recognises that young people at risk of exploitation are victims and survivors of exploitation, and not complicit in their own abuse. Download this guide produced by the Children’s Society.
Culturally Competent Responses
Download Power The Fight’s Therapeutic Intervention for Peace report to improve the effectiveness of therapeutic responses to violence affecting young people in London.
Disruption Toolkit
Download the Home Office’s Child Exploitation Toolkit to support frontline practitioners safeguard children and young people at risk of exploitation.
Support for Young Women
Abianda is a social enterprise that works with young women affected by gangs, and provides training for the professionals who work with them.
County Lines Guidance
The Home Office County Lines Guidance aims to support front-line staff working with young people. (Sep 2018)
County Lines Professionals' Toolkit
Useful guidance for practitioners developed by Children’s Society, Victims Support and the National Police Chief’s Council.
Pan-London Support
Safer London provides intensive support, early intervention and mentoring.
Specialist Support
St Giles Trust work in Lambeth to offer a range of programmes to support young people exposed to or at risk from violence and exploitation.
Pan-London Exploitation Protocol
Launched in March 2021, this police-led, multiagency document sets out the operating protocol for safeguarding children from exploitation. The guidance complements the London Child Protection Procedures.
Free Resources
Join the Contextual Safeguarding Network for free to access resources, tutorials, videos and briefings.