North Lincolnshire Harm Outside the Home – Toolkit
Introduction
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 states:
Supporting children at risk of, or experiencing, harm outside the home. Some children experience abuse and exploitation outside the home. This is often referred to as “extra-familial harm”. Harm can occur in a range of extra-familial contexts, including school and other educational settings, peer groups, or within community/public spaces, and/or online. Children may experience this type of harm from other children and/or from adults. Forms of extra-familial harm include exploitation by criminal and organised crime groups and individuals (such as county lines and financial exploitation), serious violence, modern slavery and trafficking, online harm, sexual exploitation, teenage relationship abuse, and the influences of extremism which could lead to radicalisation. Children of all ages can experience extra-familial harm.
Locally, North Lincolnshire have developed a Harm Outside the Home approach which covers the following areas of risk:
• Child Criminal Exploitation by criminal gangs and organised crime groups such as county lines
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Human trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
• Online abuse
• Peer/ teenage relationship abuse
• Bullying
• Serious Youth Violence
• Radicalisation by extremist groups
This toolkit is aimed at multi-agency practitioners working or volunteering with children, young people, families and vulnerable people who may be at risk of and/or are experiencing harm outside of the home. It is supplementary to the Children’s Multi-Agency Resilience and Safeguarding (MARS) Board policies and procedures.
Resources are organised using a best fit approach however many of the resources listed may cover a number of types of harm. This toolkit will be refreshed annually, and new resources may be added throughout the year.
The guidance should also be read in conjunction with Working Together to 2023 and Keeping Children Safe in Education (please note this is updated annually) .
Child Exploitation
Child Sexual Exploitation
Children’s MARS guidance Child Sexual Exploitation Definition and a guide for practitioners, local leaders and decision makers working to protect children from child sexual exploitation outlines how organisations and agencies in North Lincolnshire should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people from sexual exploitation.
Children’s MARS Guidance – Child Sexual Exploitation Vulnerabilities and Risk guide sets out who is vulnerable to child sexual exploitation (CSE), vulnerabilities as examples of the types of things children can experience that might make them more susceptible to CSE and potential indicators of risk as children rarely self-report CSE so it is important that practitioners are aware of these.
Child Criminal Exploitation
Children’s MARS policy and procedure Child Criminal Exploitation Definition and a guide for practitioners, local leaders and decision makers working to protect children from child criminal exploitation outlines how organisations and agencies in North Lincolnshire should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people from child criminal exploitation.
Children’s MARS Guidance Child Criminal Exploitation Vulnerabilities and Risk Indicators Guide sets out who is vulnerable to child criminal exploitation (CCE), vulnerabilities as examples of the types of things children can experience that might make them more susceptible to CCE and potential indicators of risk as children rarely self-report CCE, so it is important that practitioners are aware of these.
North Lincolnshire 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 here along with a PDF version of the CEVT Guidance document.
Local Resources
Children’s MARS Policy and Procedures
Child Sexual Exploitation Definition and a guide for practitioners, local leaders and decision makers working to protect children from child sexual exploitation can be found on the CMARS website CMARS | Supplementary Documents – CMARS.
Children’s MARS Guidance
Child Sexual Exploitation Vulnerabilities and Risk Indicators Guide can be found here CMARS | Supplementary Documents – CMARS.
Not in Our Community
Is a campaign providing resources co-produced with young people in the Humber area to help children and young people stay safe. It is designed to help children and young people stay safe by raising awareness of grooming, exploitation, and other crime-related risks. Please visit the below website to view the full range of resources, presentations, videos and worksheets in regards to topics including Criminal exploitation (e.g. county lines), Sexual exploitation, Online abuse, Radicalisation and Teenage relationship abuse.
The Not in our community website highlights a wide range of co-produced resources aimed at helping children and young people across the Humber region stay safe from exploitation and harm. Here are some key highlighted resource areas:
• Alfie’s story, produced by the Not In Our Community campaign, is a powerful two-part video resource that explores the grooming and criminal exploitation of a 13-year-old boy in Grimsby. It is based on real-life experiences and co-written with survivors to raise awareness and promote early intervention. The video story follows Alfie’s journey of criminal exploitation, how it can happen and the consequences it can have for all involved. View Alfie’s story on YouTube
• Anywhere Kids is 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
• 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 lifechanging 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 .
• Trapped lesson plan – this lesson plan provides examples of icebreaker activities to introduce young people to the topic of grooming and exploitation.
NSPCC
The NSPCC provides a wide-ranging and trauma-informed support offer for children and young people affected by child exploitation, including both sexual and criminal exploitation. Here’s an overview of their key services and resources:
• Information and guidance for parents, carers, and professionals
• Advice on spotting signs, responding to disclosures, and reporting concerns
• NSPCC Learning: Provides training, case reviews, and safeguarding resources for professionals
• Types of Child Abuse & How to Prevent Them | NSPCC
The Children’s Society
The Children’s Society is a UK-based national charity dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children and young people. The charity works to transform the hopes and happiness of children facing abuse, exploitation, neglect, and other serious challenges. The Children’s Society website features a rich resource library including Toolkits (e.g. for child sexual exploitation) for professionals. The Children’s Society | UK children’s charity
Fearless
The Fearless website is the dedicated youth service of the charity Crimestoppers UK, designed to empower young people to speak up about crime 100% anonymously. The website includes information about crime, criminality and personal safety on a range of topics including:
• Knife crime
• County lines and exploitation
• Drugs and alcohol
• Online safety
• Gangs and violence
• Real-life stories and videos to help young people understand risks and consequences
• Young people can report crime online without giving any personal details.
Give information about crime 100% anonymously | Fearless | Crimestoppers
Crimestoppers
Crimestoppers are an independent charity that gives people the power to speak up and stop crime, 100% anonymously. By phone and online, 24/7, 365 days a year. Our story | Crimestoppers
Ivison Trust (formerly PACE: Parents against child exploitation)
Ivison Trust (formerly Pace) is a national charity working to keep children safe from exploitation by supporting their parents, disrupting the exploiters and working in partnership with police and family services. This website includes:
• Toolkits and factsheets on exploitation, grooming, and safeguarding.
• Training materials for parents and professionals.
• Real-life stories from families affected by exploitation.
• Guidance on working with schools, police, and social service
National information, advice and guidance
Practice guides, toolkits and resources – Contextual Safeguarding Network
Their website contains a range of practice briefings and resources aimed at professionals working with children and families, VCSE organisations and parents and carers.
Contextual Safeguarding Research Durham University
Contextual Safeguarding
Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. It recognises that the different relationships that young people form in their neighbourhoods, schools and online can feature violence and abuse. Parents and carers have little influence over these contexts, and young people’s experiences of extra-familial abuse can undermine parent-child relationships. The contextual Safeguarding website includes a range of research and resources to help practitioners to make changes that improve responses to extra-familial harm. Resources | Contextual Safeguarding
National County Lines Coordination Centre
The National County Lines Coordination Centre (NCLCC) is a UK-wide initiative established in 2018 to lead the national response to county lines drug trafficking and the associated exploitation of children and vulnerable adults.
The NCLCC YouTube channel has a collection of video resources on subjects such as Tackling County Lines and the National Referral Mechanism.
• National County Lines Coordination Centre – YouTube channel
• Sect 45 updated Oct 24
• County Lines Awareness Video W/Subtitles
CSE and night time economy – Barnardo’s
An animated film from Barnardo’s showing how front line workers in the night time economy can play an important role in helping keep young people safe from sexual exploitation. The film follows a journey of a young girl and a perpetrator and highlights how, if you feel that something just isn’t quite right, you should report it. The night time economy can provide a network of eyes and ears within the community after dark. Nightwatch: Empowering The Night Time Economy To Tackle CSE – YouTube
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.
How Do I Know if I’m Being Groomed? ft. Lucy Fallon | Voice Box | Childline – YouTube
The Assessment and Intervention Planning for Young People at Risk of Extra-Familial Harm: Practice Guidance – Contextual Safeguarding Network
This guide prompts practitioners to consider both the context of children’s experiences within their family home and in other social spaces, including in the local neighbourhood or online, their school or their peer group. By helping practitioners identify and assess other forms of harm that young people may face in these various spaces, the guidance documents enables them to conduct a more holistic assessment than a traditional child and family assessment, which only focusses on harm that happens to young people inside of the home and family environment.
This document supports practitioners to:
• assess a young person’s extra familial risk of harm.
• consider the needs of a young person subject to extra-familial risk; and
• make recommendations/plan for on-going work which addresses extra- familial risk of harm
‘What’s happening’ and ‘All around me’ tools – Contextual Safeguarding Network
The ‘What’s happening’ tool helps practitioners gather information about a parent or carer’s understanding of the strengths and vulnerabilities of a young person across each of the identified contexts. The ‘All around me’ tool is designed to help practitioners gather information from a young person to build a picture/understanding of the people and places that matter most to that young person in each of the identified contexts.
Contextual Assessment toolkit for schools – Contextual Safeguarding Network
This Contextual Assessment guidance toolkit has been developed to support practitioners to consider how to assess and develop responses to risk in schools. The toolkit is designed to support practitioners to carry out a contextual assessment within a secondary school context. Contextual Assessment Toolkit for Schools
Neighbourhood Assessment toolkit – Contextual Safeguarding Network
This Neighbourhood Assessment toolkit has been developed to support practitioners to consider how to assess and develop responses to risk in neighbourhoods. The toolkit is designed to support practitioners to carry out a contextual assessment within a neighbourhood context. The toolkit includes a suite of different assessment methods.
Neighbourhood Assessment Toolkit
Safety Mapping Tool – Contextual Safeguarding Network
This tool can be used to identify with a young person safe and unsafe places and plan safety interventions according to need and risk. Safety Mapping Tool
Contextual Safeguarding Implementation Toolkit – Contextual Safeguarding Network
Contextual Safeguarding Implementation Toolkit will provide professionals with a roadmap for embedding Contextual Safeguarding in:
• Referrals and screening
• Assessment processes
• Planning and review
• Support, help and intervention
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Policy, strategic engagement, training and commissioning
Barnardo’s Exploited and Criminalised report
The below report makes recommendations that will prevent and better identify and support victims of child criminal exploitation and highlights the importance of the multi agency response. Exploited and Criminalised report
Internet watch foundation
IWF work to eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online, preventing the ongoing victimisation of those abused in childhood and making the internet safer for all. The IWF Annual Data & Insights Report 2024 delves into and explores the intelligence gathered in 2024 through the assessment of child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet. IWF 2024 Annual Data & Insights Report
Government guidance
• Child Sexual Exploitation Definition and a guide for practitioners, local leaders and decision makers working to protect children from child sexual exploitation (Department for Education, 2017)
• Criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: county lines (Home Office, 2017)
Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
Local information, advice and guidance
Humber Modern Slavery Partnership
The Humber Modern Slavery Partnership website has a wealth of resources and information relating to Modern Day Slavery and how to spot the signs.
National information, advice and guidance
NRM
The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is the UK’s framework for identifying and supporting potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking to ensure they receive appropriate support. If the potential victim is under 18, or may be under 18, an NRM referral must be made. Modern Slavery: statutory guidance for England and Wales (under s49 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015) and non-statutory guidance for Scotland and Northern Ireland (accessible version) – GOV.UK
ECPAT UK
ECPAT UK (Every Child Protected Against Trafficking) is a leading UK-based children’s rights organisation focused on ending child trafficking, exploitation, and modern slavery. It is part of the global ECPAT International network. ECPAT UK Publishes cutting-edge research on child trafficking trends, policy gaps, and best practices. The ECPAT UK website contains useful practitioner resources and publications.
The below film is aimed at tackling the growing issue of Vietnamese children being trafficked to the UK for cannabis cultivation. The Secret Gardeners: New film on child trafficking from Vietnam | ECPAT UK .The ECPAT UK website also contains leaflets (in 11 languages) for young people who may have been trafficked about their rights Leaflet
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.
Losing Control: A Story About Trafficking | Childline – YouTube
Government guidance
• National Referral Mechanism Guidance (Home Office, 2021)
• Modern Slavery: Statutory Guidance (Home Office, 2020)
• Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery (Department for Education, 2017)
• Human Trafficking Practical Guidance (Home Office, 2013)
• Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities on the Care of Unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery (Department of Education, 2017)
Missing Children
Children who go missing are identified as being at heightened risk of Harm Outside the Home related harm. This is a key principle in the Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 guidance and is central to contextual safeguarding approaches.
Local information, advice and guidance
Children’s MARS policies, procedures and guidance
The Children’s MARS North Lincolnshire Missing From Care Protocol outlines our multi-agency approach to children who runaway or go missing from home and care.
Not in Our Community – Missed Me?
“Missed Me?” is a powerful educational film and lesson resource from the Not In Our Community campaign. It is designed to raise awareness of child exploitation, particularly how young people can be groomed, go missing, and become entangled in dangerous situations—often without others noticing the signs. The story has been created to help raise awareness of the reasons behind young people going missing and present them as victims rather than perpetrators of crime or the cause of situations including sexual and criminal exploitation. View Missed Me? On YouTube
North Lincolnshire
The below leaflet provides guidance for parents and carers in North Lincolnshire around what to do when their child goes missing. It also gives advice on what to do and how to react when they return home.
• Missing Children Information Leaflet
National information, advice and guidance
The Children’s Society – What to do if your child goes missing
The Children’s Society provides advice and guidance to parents around what to do if their child goes missing. Their website also contains information around why children go missing, what happens when the child is found and information on return home interviews.
What to do if your child goes missing | The Children’s Society
Below also provides advice for children and young people who are thinking of running away I Am Thinking Of Running Away | The Children’s Society
Childline
Childline provides advice specifically for children who go missing or run away and what happens when they return home Running away | Childline .
Railway Children
Railway Children is a UK charity who support and intervene with children who pass through railway stations alone or are found alone in the street. Their website provides information around why children run away, what the risks are and how to talk to your child about running away. Protecting Vulnerable Children Worldwide | Railway Children
Government guidance
• Children who run away or go missing from home or care (Department for Education, 2014)
• Research and analysis overview: Missing children (Ofsted, 2013)
Peer on Peer Abuse, Harmful Sexual Behaviour, Bullying and Teenage Relationship Abuse
The Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 guidance provides a strengthened and more integrated approach to safeguarding, with a clear focus on peer-on-peer abuse, harmful sexual behaviour (HSB), bullying, and teenage relationship abuse. These are all recognised as forms of extra-familial harm that require coordinated, trauma-informed, and multi-agency responses.
Local information, advice and guidance
Children’s MARS Guidance
CMARS Working with Children and Young People who display Harmful Sexual Behaviour guidance provides advice to practitioners working with children and young people who display inappropriate or harmful sexual behaviour. CMARS | Supplementary Documents – CMARS
National information, advice and guidance
NSPCC
The NSPCC provides comprehensive guidance and resources on Problematic and Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB) through its Learning platform
NSPCC Harmful Sexual Behaviour framework (Hackett continuum of HSB)
This framework helps local areas develop and improve multi-agency responses to children displaying HSB. It provides a coordinated, systematic and evidence-based approach to recognising and responding to the risks and needs of this vulnerable group. Harmful sexual behaviour framework | NSPCC Learning
Brook Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool
Brook’s Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool and training provides a highly visible, multi-agency response that helps professionals to identify, understand and respond appropriately to sexual behaviours in young people. The training and accompanying tool equip professionals to make consistent and informed decisions that neither stigmatise nor criminalise young people. Participants will learn about healthy sexual development, understand key laws relating to sexual behaviour and gain knowledge on enabling robust and meaningful conversations around harmful sexual behaviours that cause concern. Training in the Brook traffic light tool is required before it can be used in practice. For more information please visit CPD: Brook Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool (RSE) Course
Harmful Sexual Behaviour research – Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse
This document shares key messages from research on children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour and discusses effective assessment, interventions and preventative approaches. Key messages from research on children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour – CSA Centre
Childline: Healthy and unhealthy relationships
This online guide provides advice to children around how to recognise an unhealthy relationship and what to do if you feel unsafe. Healthy and unhealthy relationships | Childline
Childline: Bullying and Cyberbullying
This online guide helps parents and children recognise bullying and what to do about it. It also includes advice around how to support someone who is being bullying and how to help them cope once the bullying has been addressed. Bullying and cyberbullying | Childline
Anti-Bullying Alliance
A range of tools and resources are available on their website including specific guidance for schools about sexual bullying and free training. All about bullying including:
• What is sexual bullying? (anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk)
• Responding to bullying toolkit (anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk)
• Free CPD online anti-bullying training (anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk)
Children’s Society guide for responding to children telling you they have experienced sexual abuse, sexual violence and sexual harassment Children sharing experience of sexual abuse, sexual violence and sexual harassment need to be responded to sensitively. This guide provides advice to practitioners around how to respond to a child telling them about their experience of sexual abuse. Guide for responding to children telling you they have experienced sexual abuse, sexual violence and sexual harassment
Learning from case reviews – Harmful Sexual Behaviour
This briefing by the NSPCC is based on learning from case reviews published since 2010, where harmful sexual behaviour was highlighted as a significant issue. Harmful sexual behaviour: learning from case reviews | NSPCC Learning
Government guidance
• Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges (Ofsted, 2021)
• Guidance overview: Sharing nudes and semi-nudes: advice for education settings working with children and young people (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, 2020)
• Preventing and tackling bulling – Advice for headteachers, staff and governing bodies (Department for Education, 2017)
• Approaches to preventing and tackling bullying (Department for Education, 2018)
Radicalisation
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 guidance includes a clear focus on safeguarding children from radicalisation, recognising it as a form of harm outside the home (HOTH) and a serious safeguarding concern.
Local information, advice and guidance
Children’s MARS Guidance on working with children who are vulnerable to radicalisation explains the indicators and actions to be taken regarding children and young people who are vulnerable to radicalisation and explains the Prevent and Channel process
Humberside Police
Prevent | Humberside Police Working with other organisations, the police protect vulnerable people from being exploited by extremists through a Home Office programme called Prevent. This website includes guidance around spotting the signs of radicalisation, how to share a concern and what support is available.
National information, advice and guidance
An introduction to Prevent – Home Office video
This video gives an introduction to how Prevent works on the ground, told by those who have come into contact with the programme. Prevent: An Introduction – YouTube
E-Learning is also available on the Home Office website including:
• Prevent awareness e-learning
• Prevent referrals e-learning
• Channel awareness e-learning
Educate Against Hate
This website contains government advice and trusted resources for schools to safeguard students from radicalisation, build resilience to all types of extremism and promote shared values. Educate Against Hate – Prevent Radicalisation & Extremism
Counter Terrorism Policing UK – YouTube
The below video shows how easy it can be for anyone to become vulnerable to extremists operating online and looking to radicalise young and impressionable individuals. Online Radicalisation – YouTube
Hollyoaks TV drama enlisted the help of Prevent to tell a far right radicalisation storyline. This video tells the real life story behind it and explains how to get help if you fear someone you know is at risk. Counter Terrorism Policing teams up with Hollyoaks | Prevent – YouTube
Humza Arshad has collaborated with counter-terrorism police to stop children being drawn into gang crime and extremism. Arshad, 34, worked with officers to produce the film ‘Hate’. The message behind the film is one of tolerance, respect and communities working together to challenge hate in all its forms. HATE – Short Film. – YouTube
The below film shows the story of a back street brawl between two young men with extreme and opposing views – men who would never take the time to talk, to listen, to understand each other. And yet a conversation begins. This provocative film reveals some challenging truths about prejudice, extremism and radicalisation, and shows that the best way to understand these problems is to talk. Extremists – YouTube
Counter Terrorism policing have produced some helpful briefings including:
• Lone Actor Briefing – This briefing document provides an overview of behaviours, concerns and indicators which may suggest an individual is susceptible
• Involuntary Celibates (Incels) briefing – This document provides an overview onto the online subculture of incels
Counter Extremism – Preventing Radicalisation in schools
The below website contains a series of videos which discusses the real life experience of ‘John’ who tells the story of how he was groomed. Many signs and opportunities were missed until his behaviour was reported and he experienced the Prevent process Counter-Extremism (lgfl.org.uk)
Prevent for further education and training
This website is aimed at the education and training sectors. It offers guidance, sample risk assessments, policies and procedures along with resources, online training and links to videos Prevent for further education and training website
Far-Right Extremism in Europe (FREE) Initiative – YouTube
The below video shows information about the far-right extremism scale across Europe Far-Right Extremism: Why We Should Be Concerned – YouTube
National Police Chiefs’ Council – YouTube
The below video provides advice on what to do to stay safe in the event of a firearms and weapons attack
Run, Hide, Tell: Firearms and Weapons Attack – YouTube
BBC articles
Involuntary celibate, known as incels, are a growing subculture. This article documents one man’s journey ‘I used to be an incel’ – BBC. A documentary created by the BBC takes a look at the incel community, an online subculture which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have been attributed BBC – Inside the Secret World of Incels. This BBC News article explores some of the current concerns, issues and dangers surrounding the threat of Far Right Terrorism online and in our communities Is there a growing far-right threat online? – BBC News
Government guidance
• Prevent duty guidance (Home Office, 2023)
• Channel and Prevent Multi-Agency Panel (PMAP) guidance (Home Office, 2021)
• Guidance overview: Prevent duty toolkit for local authorities and partner agencies (Home Office, 2023)
• The Prevent Duty in higher education (HE): training and guidance for practitioners (Department for Education, 2021)
• Policy paper overview: Counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) (Home Office, 2018)
Online abuse
The Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 guidance recognises online abuse as a significant and growing form of harm outside the home (HOTH).
National information, advice and guidance
CEOP
The National Crime Agency’s CEOP Education team aim to help protect children and young people from online child sexual abuse. This website contains resources for children of all ages around internet safety and preventing online grooming. There are lesson plans, activities for children and advice articles for parents, carers and professionals.
CEOP Education.
Send me a pic? has been developed in response to learning from research into young people’s relationships online, and through extensive collaboration with young people across the UK.
The Children’s Society
The Children’s Society offers a robust and compassionate approach to online safety, aiming to protect children and young people from online exploitation, grooming, bullying, and abuse. Promoting online safety for children | The Children’s Society
Internet Watch Foundation
The IWF ‘Self-generated’ child sexual abuse prevention campaign highlights that Young people are increasingly being groomed by online predators to create sexually explicit images and videos. The website includes an overview of the campaign and its aims. TALK and Gurls Out Loud ‘self-generated’ child sexual abuse prevention campaign
The Lucy Faithful Foundation
Inform Young People is an educational programme for young people in trouble with the police, their school or college for inappropriate use of technology and the internet including behaviour such as sexting, possession and/or distribution of indecent images of children and/or engaging in risk taking behaviours online, such as accessing adult pornography.
Online harms research – The University of East Anglia
This research sets out how to help children ages 8-12 years old to recognise, respond to and recover from online harm. This new study argues that activating digital resilience needs to be viewed as a collective endeavour, involving the child, parents/carers, youth workers, teachers and schools at a community level, along with governments, policymakers and internet corporations at a societal level. Online harms research – The University of East Anglia.
Serious youth violence
The Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 guidance, alongside the 2024 multi-agency thematic report on serious youth violence, provides a comprehensive overview of how local partnerships should respond to the growing threat of serious youth violence (SYV) as a safeguarding issue.
Local information, advice and guidance
No More Knives or County Lines
Working in collaboration with the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside, this website is an educational resource that helps to educate young children and teenagers, on the topic of knife crime. No More Knife Crime website .
The below online e-book aims to educate children aged 10 to 16 on the dangers of getting involved with county lines and carrying knives. The story is about a groups of friends who are groomed and lured into delivering packages to various areas, using rail and taxis and their own dedicated phone lines; Jamie regrets picking up a knife for protection.
The below video tells the story of a group of friends who are groomed into county lines and realise the consequences of carrying knives
No More Knives by Christina Gabbitas – YouTube
National information, advice and guidance
Lives not knives
Lives not knives is a youth-led charity that works to prevent knife crime, serious youth violence and school exclusions by engaging, educating and empowering disadvantaged young people and supporting them to enjoy their lives and improve their future prospects. Lives not knives website
The Ben Kinsella Trust
The Ben Kinsella Trust is an anti-knife crime charity which tackles knife crime through education. Their website contains resources of young people, parents and professionals. The Ben Kinsella Trust website
Home Office – Serious and Organised Crime Toolkit
This Serious and Organised Crime Toolkit was developed by the Home Office, in partnership with the police and the voluntary sector, to provide information for practitioners working with young people to help them:
• understand why young people get involved in serious and organised crime
• understand how organised criminals operate
• spot risks and identify when young people need support
• help young people at risk to access the support they need
It All Adds Up – YouTube
‘It All Adds Up’ is an animation created by the Student Commission on Racial Justice. It All Adds Up – YouTube
Government guidance
• Injunctions to prevent gang related violence and gang related drug dealing.
• Statutory guidance (HM Government, 2016)
• Injunctions to prevent gang related violence and gang related drug dealing: a practitioners’ guide (HM Government, 2016)
• Advice to parents and carers on gangs (Home Office, 2014)
• Guidance to schools and colleges on gangs and youth violence (Home Office, 2013)
• Multi-agency responses to serious youth violence: working together to support and protect children – His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services