Information to help professionals working with, or caring for children/young people in an employed or voluntary role in safeguarding and promoting welfare.
Child Sexual Exploitation: Definition and Guide for Practitioners (DfE, February 2017) - definition and a guide for practitioners, local leaders and decision makers working to protect children from child sexual exploitation.
Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy (GOV.UK)
Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse
Barnardo's - Child Sexual Exploitation - resources and research on Child Sexual Exploitation.
Child Sexual Exploitation: Practice Tool (2017) (open access) - further background information about child sexual exploitation and additional commentary around some of the complexities of practically responding to the issue.
Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation - Policing and Prevention has a number of resources that may be useful for professionals when working with children and young people, their families and communities including more in depth views of some particular themes and issues identifies in this chapter.
Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit – GOV.UK. The toolkit sets out many of the tools useful for police and other safeguarding professionals to disrupt the sexual and criminal exploitation of children and young people and sets out best practice in information sharing and multi-agency working as well as intelligence and evidence gathering.
NSPCC Report Remove Tool - The tool enables young people under the age of 18 to report a nude image or video of themselves which has appeared online. The Internet Watch Foundation will review these reports and work to remove any content which breaks the law.
Modern Slavery Human Trafficking Centre (MSHTU)
Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation – College of Policing
Child Sexual Abuse – The Children's Commissioner
PACE - PACE works alongside parent, carers of children who are - or at risk of being - sexually exploited by perpetrators external to the family.
Tackling Child Exploitation: Resources Pack (Local Government Association)
Bridging the Gap: Transitional Safeguarding and the Role of Social Work with Adults
Criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: county lines (GOV.UK) - Guidance for frontline professionals on dealing with county lines, part of the government's approach to ending gang violence and exploitation.
Protecting children from criminal exploitation, human trafficking and modern slavery: an addendum November 2018
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