Safeguarding children - information regarding Sexual and Criminal Exploitation

Sexual and Criminal Exploitation Strategy for Northumberland 2020-2024
NCASP - Safeguarding Children and Young People from Child Exploitation (sexual and criminal) Guidance - This includes:

• Definitions
• Who is at risk
• Indicators 
• Consent
• Online child exploitation 
• Child on Child Abuse
• Children and young people who go misisng - if a child does go missing the NCASP Missing Children Protocol should be followed.
• Protection and action to be taken
• Supporting children and their familes

Further Information

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

​Further guidance 

• Appropriate language: child sexual and/or criminal exploitation guidance for professionals
• Capturing and reporting intelligence: child sexual and/or criminal exploitation guidance for families, professionals and the community

County Lines Presentation  Presentation for team meetings 

Videos

Child Sexual Exploitation
Patrick Boyle the Sexual Exploitation Lead and Senior Manager for Northumberland Children's Services has developed this brief video guide. 

Consent is as simple as a cup of tea
Understanding consent for sex is simple and this short video explains why.

Tricky Friends
This is a short animation originally developed by Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board. The aim is to help people with learning disabilities, and also children and young adults, understand what good friendships are, when they might be harmful, and what they can do.
This can be used by carers, family, professionals and organisations, to raise awareness and help keep them safer while enjoying relationships..

See it, Tackle it stop it, 
Players from Newcastle United, Sunderland Football Club and Middlesbrough Football Club are taking part in the ‘SEE IT, TACKLE IT, STOP IT’ campaign alongside The Children’s Society, Northumbria Police and Newcastle Elite Academy.

Bedford University Short Films for Practice - CSE Research
These 12 films are aimed at anyone who wants to access learning from the latest research on CSE) in a short accessible form.

The films share the findings of a range of studies undertaken by researchers in ‘The International Centre: Researching Child Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Trafficking’ at the University of Bedfordshire, as well as drawing on wider CSE literature.

Most of the films are under two minutes long. They can be watched in the office, shared with colleagues or friends, or used in training contexts. Each film is accompanied by a short briefing document that outlines the evidence in more detail, with references and links to the original research, and questions for reflection.

Operation Sanctuary - Business Leaflet (pdf, 1990kb)

Operation Sanctuary - General Information Leaflet (pdf, 272kb)

Operation Sanctuary - Taxi Leaflet (pdf, 268kb)

Newcastle Joint SCR Briefing

Bradford Jack SCR 

Useful LInks

• National Working Group for sexual exploited children and young people
• Barnardo's
• Childline
• The Children’s Society / Look Closer Campaign
• The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre
• NSPCC (safeguarding children and child protection)
• NSPCC (child trafficking)
• NSPCC National Child Trafficking Advice and Information Line (CTAIL)
• ECPAT UK (Every Child Proected Against Trafficking)
• ThinkUKnow
• Sex Education Forum
• National Crime Agency Human Trafficking Centre