• Aims and Objectives


    Tackling child exploitation is a complex task. There are similarities between different forms of exploitation and the criminal and sexual exploitation of children may overlap. Victims of exploitation may, at any one time, be subject to both. It is vital that frontline practitioners recognise, and by working together, deploy tactics to disrupt multiple types of exploitation when they occur.

    Perpetrators of child sexual exploitation (CSE) and child criminal exploitation (CCE) can share patterns of behaviour in respect of coercion, violence, intimidation and the power imbalance inherent in them and many other offences.

    Child exploitation cannot be solved in isolation. Effective information sharing is essential to the protection of children and stopping offenders.

    Content

    This course incorporates legislation, guidance and practical experience of dealing with this complex area of child safeguarding.

    •         What is CSE – definition and offences

    •         Who are CSE perpetrators

    •         Understanding the current procedures to ID CSE victims and how to respond

    •         Information sharing protocols

    •         Understanding gang culture

    •         What is CCE

    •         Who are CCE perpetrators

    •         Understanding of ‘County Lines’ and how to respond

    •         Reporting both CSE and CCE


    • Child Exploitation – Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation