Transcript Child Sexual Exploitation - Barking and Dagenham

Children’s Services Select Committee
5 March 2014
Child Sexual Exploitation
Elaine Ryan
Safeguarding Lead for Education
March 2014
Understanding Child Sexual Exploitation
Definition
“Exploitative situations, contexts and relationships where young
people (or a third person or persons) receive ‘something’ (for
example, food, accommodation, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes,
affection, gifts, money) as a result of performing sexual activities
and/or another performing sexual activities on them. In all cases
those exploiting the child/young person have power over them by
virtue of their age, gender, intellect, physical strength and/or
economic or other resources. Violence, coercion and intimidation
are common, involvement in exploitative relationships being
characterised in the main by the child or young person’s limited
availability of choice resulting from their social/economic and/or
emotional vulnerability.”
2009 Statutory Guidance Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation
Introduction and Background
 Barnados Child Sexual Exploitation Pilot Project –
2010
 One year duration
 Five active cases identified
 Successful outcomes
 Targeted support for Schools
Developments 2010 -2014
 Barnardos – Identifying and Preventing Child Sexual
Exploitation Training
 Understanding the impact of Child Sexual
Exploitation
 Keeping Safe – PHSE Citizenship module
 Sexual Exploitation Lead
 Young Peoples Safety Forum
Current Position
 The Daniel Project
 The ARC Theatre Group
 Workshops – Gangs and Child Sexual Exploitation
 Gender specific programme
 IDVAS Direct intervention
Direction of Travel
 Finalise and agree the Child Sexual Exploitation
(CSE) Strategic and Operational Plan
 Formalise the MASE / CSE Strategic Sub-Group
 Formalise the CSE Multi-Agency Planning (MAP)
group
 Rolling out multi - agency specialist CSE training
events / briefings
The Strategic Approach is to…
• Raise awareness of the issues/publicise within the workforce,
community, independent, private and voluntary sectors
• Map prevalence and identify vulnerability factors and profiles
• Prevent CSE by building resilience and education
• Respond, support and protect victims and those at risk
• Share information to enable disruption and prosecution of
perpetrators
The B&D CSE Strategy
It is expected of all agencies to be provided with the tools to
recognise the signs of abuse and ensure that they know what to do
if they suspect a child or young person is being exploited.
The commitment of Barking and Dagenham is to:
 Prevent exploitation
 Protect those who experience it
 Prosecute those who commit it
 Publicise information to promote
Publicise
awareness
Prevent
Protect
Prosecute
Prevention – What we will do
 Review current procedures in line with the London Child
Protection Procedures (5th Ed.,) 2014
 Targeted work to build resilience amongst young people at risk
 Identify and implement early intervention practices
 Introduction of a flag for young people who are known to be at
risk of CSE
 Commission post abuse support for children and young people to
reduce re-victimisation
 Develop specialist training for parents, foster carers and care staff
supporting young people at risk of sexual exploitation
 Incorporate CSE into all parenting programmes
 Incorporate the LCPP 5th Edition re: Child Sexual Exploitation
Supplementary Guidance/Pan London Protocol for CSE
Protection – What we will do
 Establishment of a Multi-agency Planning (MAP) Meetings where
safety plans can be effectively co-ordinated and reviewed
 Endorse the Pan London CSE Operational Protocol
 Commission services for young person within existing local
domestic and sexual violence offer to include support for young
people
 Targeted work around Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and
Groups
 Agree membership, links and accountability of MASE / CSE
Strategic Group
 Development of effective quality assurance of interventions
 Reflection on lessons learned
Prosecution – What we will do
 Expansion of a Tactical Disruption approach - work alongside
the MPS Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse
Investigation Command (SC&02/5)
 Transfer good practice from our proactive work on identifying
young people involved in gangs
 Ensure co-ordination between CSE and public protection
mechanisms such as MAPPA, MARAC, MASH and Missing Children
sub group
 Ensure effective coordination between all agencies
Publicise – What we will do
 Understanding what is happening – The local profile of CSE
 Specialist CSE training and resources for health and social care
practitioners, police and designated Child Protection leads in
Schools
 Enhance understanding of reporting routes
 Awareness raising for universal staff, families and friends and
stakeholders in the independent, private, voluntary sectors and
the wider community
Key Documents
• Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: A scoping study of Current
Practice in London – University of Bedfordshire
• ‘If only someone had listened’ – Inquiry into Child Sexual
Exploitation in Gangs and Groups (Nov 2013 The Office of the
Children Commission)
• See Me, Hear Me – Operational and Strategic Framework
• Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation – A study of current practice
in London - University of Bedfordshire/London
Councils/London Safeguarding Children Boards
Next Steps...
Strategic
 Formalise the CSE sub group
 Review the strategy and operation plan
 Leadership / Ownership
 Joined up working
 Quality Assurance schedule
 A clear mechanism of identification and
tracking CSE victims/cases
 Develop/Establish to MASE group
Next Steps cont…
Operational
 Problem Profiling to identify the scale and
nature of CSE in Barking and Dagenham
 Develop a clear pathway for CSE cases in B & D
 Develop a mechanism of identification and
tracking of CSE cases
‘Everything gets better in the end,
and if it’s not better, it’s not the
end’
Quote by: The Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s report into Child Exploitation in Gangs and Groups