IFAS Conference 2025 – Children and Young People: Could strangulation be ‘choking’ future generations?
In-person
18th Nov 2025 to 18th Nov 2025
The Institute for Addressing Strangulation presents our Autumn 2025 Conference.
Date: Tuesday 18th November 2025
Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Holiday Street, Birmingham, B1 1HH
Join us as we explore the latest research and data on strangulation and what this tells us about the prevalence, experiences and understanding of strangulation within different contexts amongst young people.
Conference outline
This conference will bring together policymakers, practitioners, researchers and survivors to explore the issues of strangulation among children and young people and how we tackle gender based violence for future generations.
In the morning we will hear about the political efforts taking place to address gender based abuse amongst young people and how this will feed into the governments VAWG strategy as well as insights into the experiences of young people as victims of domestic abuse.
The afternoon will begin with a focus on the criminal justice response in addressing strangulation amongst young people, we will also be hearing experiences from survivors.
After lunch, we will explore strangulation in other contexts outside of abuse. IFAS will be presenting exclusive findings from a large-scale survey we are conducting this summer looking at the prevalence of strangulation within sex. There will also be opportunities for attendees to get involved in discussions looking at how we move forward to respond to strangulation amongst young people and children.
The full programme will be available soon.
Why you should attend?
The conference will provide an opportunity for professionals to come together to share their experiences and insight and to discuss how we move forward in speaking to and working with young people.
This conference will be valuable for anyone working with young people either in education, healthcare, frontline support services and part of the wider response to addressing violence against women and girls. It will enable you to explore how you can use your role to address and prevent the risks around strangulation, understand the different contexts strangulation is taking place amongst young people and network with other professionals to share best practice.
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