Publish date: 26 April 2024
Liverpool Social Care Children Partnership (LSCP) Young Advisors wrote a blog for National Child Exploitation Awareness Day (18 March) which included links to information websites and ideas of how we can all support. More information can be found in the attached document.
Children’s Services CE and Missing Lead, Natalie Cragg, says this:
The local authority works together with a number of agencies to better understand and stop child exploitation. We are committed to ensuring children are safe inside and outside of the family home, including online, but we need help with this task. CE Awareness Day reminds us that we all (service providers, parents / carers, young people and members of the public) have a role to play in protecting our children from those who would actively target and lead them into criminality or sexual activity through coercion, manipulation, deceit and/or threat.
We hope CE Awareness Day will encourage discussion and recognition of the signs that could indicate a child is being groomed / exploited. If you spot these signs please tell us.* Child exploitation is ultimately child abuse we must work together to prevent it.
This was a day of sharing knowledge and understanding of how we can support young people who may be experiencing exploitation by raising awareness across all sectors.
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