Transcript Corporate Powerpoint presentation

Child Abuse Through Sexual Exploitation (CATSE)
How valuable early recognition and response to CATSE
as a multi-agency approach is to ensuring that the right
help and right people at the right time are involved.
Presenters: Vivianne McKay, Jas Bedesha Telford &
Wrekin Council and
Francesca Varutti, Newstart Networks
Where: Main Hall
Welcome from
Vivianne McKay
Interim Service Delivery Manager
Commissioning (Children and Families and Transport)
Telford & Wrekin Council
Overview of Project by
Jas Bedesha
Service Delivery Manager - Cohesion
Family & Cohesion Services
Telford & Wrekin Council
“Operation Chalice”
Play clip
Dispatches:
The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Gangs,
Channel 4
Telford & Wrekin Council’s Context of Operation Chalice
Multi-agency partnership approach –
the right people at the right time
Jas Bedesha, Service Delivery Manager - Cohesion
Family & Cohesion Services
Telford & Wrekin Council
hild
buse hrough exual
xploitation
Learning from
Telford and
Wrekin 2008-2013
AIMS:
 Our overall aim was to look back on the experiences for all
stakeholders and to explore how and what we might do better in the
future.
 To assess the quality of the support offered to the young people,
families, communities and staff affected by CSE.
 To what extent was the support offered accessible, available, timely
and of the right kind.
SCOPE:
 All young people and their families who were known to the CATE
(Child Abuse through Exploitation) Team between December 2008
and March 2013.
 All Children’s Services staff who were involved with cases of child
sexual exploitation for the same time period.
METHOD
Young people
Families
Staff
1. Contact from
CATE worker
2. Written
information
and consent
3. Semi
structured
interviews
4. Feedback
1. Written
information
and consent
2. Semi
structured
interviews
3. Feedback
1. Staff forum of
all identified
staff
2. Individual
interviews with
staff
3. Questionnaire
looking at
attitude and
experience
INTERIM FINDINGS
STAFF:
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Evidence of learning
Multi agency working and communication
Support and training
Lack of resources
Awareness of scale of the problem
Acknowledgement of the complexity of the
problem
YOUNG PEOPLE
• Experience of CATE was positive. Young people felt listened to and
supported.
• Impact of Court experience and some elements of the police investigation
were experienced as abusive.
• The police role was viewed as supportive particularly in relation to Operation
Chalice.
• All had issues at school eg. poor attendance, bullying. There were different
responses from schools, but they all felt friends identified their problems first.
• Young people reported different experiences regarding the quality of the sex
and relationship education they received.
• No common theme as to why these particular girls were victims of sexual
exploitation - there were a number of vulnerabilities identified.
FAMILIES
• There was a significant lack of response from families of the young people
involved in sexual exploitation.
• Families felt blamed for failure to protect.
• Lack of support/resources for siblings and other family members regarding
impact issues and signs to look for.
ATTITUDES
“It always
happens in
Wellington”
“the police made
me feel like a
“slapper””
“These girls
have a right
to make
their own
choices”
“Child
prostitutes”
IMPACT ISSUES:
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Isolated from families
Isolated from friends
Involved in a network of friendships/addiction that revolves around CSE
Number of perpetrators
Nature of the abuse
Length of time abuse took place
Social impact e.g. girls are promiscuous, choose this course of action
EMERGING THEMES
 Need for therapeutic support for young people, their parents and siblings
during and after the abuse.
 Development of support services that span across Children’s and Adult
services so that post 18 vulnerable young people, not in the looked after
system, continue to be supported.
 A need for a dedicated multi-agency Team (real or virtual) to address CSE.
This may address the feeling that there were too many adults involved in
previous responses to the Young people being exploited.
 Issues regarding race and identification of those who sexually exploit
young people.
 A need for more effective IT /Communication systems.
 Role of managers – Need to improve their knowledge and skills.
Interim Conclusion
• Thus far the focus has been on the identification of CSE, disrupting that
process, ensuring young people are safe and securing convictions where
possible.
• T&W has already learned from experience over the past 5 years and has put
systems in place to facilitate this process.
• It is entirely reasonable that the focus has been on “rescue”, particularly
given the driver of Operation Chalice.
• What we are hearing, however, is that further developments need to take
place in relation to the long term recovery or rehabilitation of young people
and families and that their experiences of CSE make them significantly
different from young people who have been sexually abused in other
circumstances.
Interim Conclusion continued
Recovery will be key if we are able to ensure:
 Young people do not become part of CSE again
 Families do not fragment
 YP Mental health does not deteriorate with drug/alcohol abuse becoming
prevalent
 Young people can go on to form healthy relationships and to
successfully parent their own children
 Awareness raising in
schools and the
community - linked to
feedback from all
participants and also our
rationale based on what
we know about the
grooming methods. This
would include increasing
numbers of youth workers
and youth services, so
that young people from all
backgrounds can be
engaged.
WISH LIST
RAISING
AWARENESS
Young people empowered as early warning system
 The “perfect” multidisciplinary team. For example?
 Joined up policies and procedures between Child and Adult Services
Any questions?
Thank you
 Vivianne McKay Interim Service Delivery
Manager,
Commissioning
(Children and Families
and Transport)
 Jas Bedesha Cohesion Service
Delivery Manager,
Family & Cohesion
Services
NewStart Networks cic
Office 35 The Rural Enterprise Centre
Stafford Drive
Shrewsbury
SY1 3FE
Tel: 01743 453515
Fax: 01743
453516
Email: [email protected]
www.newstartnetworks.co.uk
Francesca Varutti Dallas Shaw
Carol Harley Helen Torrington Nicki Pitts