Child Exploitation – Resources for Professionals
Trapped
Trapped is a short film produced in Scunthorpe about events leading up to and following the near fatal stabbing of a young boy involved in a drug dealing operation. A researcher interviews five characters to try to understand why a drug related stabbing left a boy with life changing injuries. As the interviewer delves into the backstory of two boys and a girl we learn about the push and pull factors that lead to them becoming involved in drugs and child exploitation.
Watch Trapped on Not in Our Community’s YouTube channel
Additional resources can be found here: Not in Our Community Resources
Criminal Exploitation: Stages of Recruitment
The Children’s Society have put together the below documents for professionals to identify how children and young people are groomed by perpetrators and become involved with criminal exploitation.
Not in Our Community
Alfie’s Story
This video story follows Alfie’s journey of criminal exploitation, how it can happen and the consequences it can have for all involved
Critical and Reachable moments – YouTube
The below video by Kent Safeguarding Children’s Multi-Agency Partnership provides an overview of reachable and teachable moments and how professionals can take advantage of them.
Child Exploitation Vulnerability Tracker
The Child Exploitation Vulnerability Tracker (CEVT) was originally created by the Police and utilised as a county lines tracker. This tool is considered to be beneficial when used to enhance referrals/assessments and statutory plans for children who are identified to be vulnerable to/facing risks of/experiencing child exploitation.
The tracker encompasses both child sexual and child criminal exploitation.
To strengthen practice further, it is considered to be a useful tool across the child’s journey including at an early help level. Therefore, services and partner agencies who provide early help are encouraged to utilise the tool for example, services who support children and families including across health, education and wider agencies.
The guidance around how to use the tool is available below along with a PDF version of the CEVT.
CEVT – please note that we are unable to upload the excel version to our website. If you require a copy of the tool, please email mars@northlincs.gov.uk and we can provide the tool for you to use
Humberside Police Partnership Intelligence Form (PIF)
Professionals can share intelligence with Humberside Police using the PIF form below
Trafficking video – Childline
This video was developed with young people as part of the NSPCC’s Protect and Respect service, in consultation with CEOP and University College London to raise awareness of trafficking.
How do I know if I am being groomed? – Childline video
This video discussed grooming and gives advice on how to spot the signs and how to get support if you’re worried that you or a friend are being groomed.
Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT UK)
ECPAT UK works with children who have been trafficked into the UK for criminal exploitation.
The ECPAT UK website contains useful education resources including leaflets (in 11 languages) for young people who may have been trafficked
Fearless
The Fearless website has educational resources on county lines to educate young people on recognising the signs and how to report it. Young people themselves can also access the website for information around crime and exploitation.
Anywhere Kids
Delivered as a collaboration with the Humber Modern Slavery Partnership, Anywhere Kids is an animation created by My Pockets which demonstrates the consequences around being groomed and exploited.
‘Anywhere Kids’ uses aspects of real stories from real victims in our area to tell the story of how young people are groomed, coerced and trapped into exploitation such as drug dealing, forced criminality and sexual exploitation, and seeks to open a dialogue with younger children about some of the dangers they may face online or in person and how they might protect themselves from being targeted by exploiters and organised criminal gangs.
Watch Anywhere Kids on Not in Our Community’s YouTube channel
Ivison Trust: Parents against child exploitation
Ivison Trust supports parents and carers of children who are being exploited by offenders outside the home. Their website provides information, support and training.