The Child Exploitation group has produced a multi agency guide for staff across all agencies and services. The launch event for this latest guidance can be viewed below:
Multi Agency Child Sexual Exploitation Guidance 2023
National Action Plan on Child Sexual Exploitation
National CSE awareness campaign: The Scottish Government has produced TV adverts and other materials to support the National CSE Awareness Campaign. For more information on the national campaign, please visit www.csethesigns.scot
This request form has been used successfully to ensure appropriate consideration is given to what planning is required when there are concerns regarding potential or actual risk to children.
Training
If you wish to learn more about Child Sexual Exploitation, watch the video below summarising our local training course which is available to all staff. You can sign up to future training courses here - Events | Aberdeen City Council
Contextual Safeguarding
In the below video Dr Firmin, the founder of Contextual Safeguarding outlines three things.
One: how contexts beyond families are associated with abuse.
Two: how traditional child protection systems fail to engage with these contextual dynamics.
Three: the components of the Contextual Safeguarding system that would redefine what child protection means.
Additional Links and Resources:
Upstream - This is an online resource developed for parents and professionals in Scotland to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. It has been developed by Stop It Now! with support from Scottish Government.
This NSPCC link takes you to a wealth of up to date information regarding CSE, from how to spot the signs to the effects of CSE and prevention > Child Sexual Exploitation & How to Keep Your Child Safe | NSPCC
Barnardo's have a wealth of resources to help identify and engage young people at risk of sexual abuse and exploitation > Girls Talk | Boys 2
This link takes you to a number of useful resources and educative material to cover with a child or young person you are supporting where there may be concerns of online abuse or exploitation > Educative Materials ThinkUKnow.
The following site is specifically aimed at teaching staff and contains resources that can be used in classroom settings to promote child sexual abuse prevention > Upstream
Useful for parents and carers, this website includes a short film discussing the warning signs of sexual abuse in children and how to respond to them > Parents Protect.
Healthy relationships and consent: key messages for young people - A resource for professionals which aims to help them support young people in their understanding of healthy relationships and consent.
CELCIS materials: These are national and local materials, including research and resources to help practitioners when dealing with CSE.
Police awareness raising materials: These police awareness raising materials have been produced for England and Wales, but a lot of the content applies and is of interest from a Scottish perspective. You can access the following materials on the CSE Police and Prevention website:
- Appropriate Language: Child Sexual and/or Criminal Exploitation
- Capturing and Reporting Intelligence: Child Sexual and/or Criminal Exploitation
- Boys and Young Men at Risk of Sexual Exploitation
- Children and Young People Trafficked for Criminal Exploitation
- Children and Young People Presenting with Harmful Sexual Behaviours (although remember the we have local multi agency guidance on this topic)
- Supporting Parents and Carers of Young People affected by Sexual Exploitation
- A Toolkit for Professionals working in the Night Time Economy
- Working with Deaf and Physically Disabled Young People in relation to Child Sexual Abuse and CSE
- Supporting Black and Minority Ethnic Young People experiencing CSE
- Supporting LGBTQ+ Young People at risk of CSE
- Human trafficking and exploitation newsletters