Child Sexual Exploitation
National Context
Safeguarding Children And Young People from
Sexual Exploitation, DCSF, 2009
Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation Action Plan,
DFE, 2011
Child Sexual Exploitation
•Agency Lead Professional
•CSE Operational Lead
•CSE Strategic Lead
•Implementation on 1 August 2013
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Child Sexual Exploitation Pathway
Young person
is identified as
being at
immediate risk
Strategy Meeting
chaired by CSE
Operational Lead
Medium
and high
risk
YP is identified
as being at
possible risk of
CSE
Early Help support
Low
risk
Low level or
non childspecific
concerns
(or ChS Team
Manager if
necessary to avoid
delay in taking
protective action)
(via EH HUB)
NFA
Monthly CSE Panel
(standing
membership chaired
by CSE Strategic
Lead)
Missing Children,
CSE and
Trafficking Task
Group
(sub group of
WSCB)
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Screening and Sharing Information
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Screening Tool
Establishing different levels of risk
Important role of the Access Centre
Non- child specific intelligence
Threshold for referral to Children’s Social Care
Role of parents/carers
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CSE Strategy Meeting
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Triggered by referral to Children’s Services
Initiated by Team Manager
Chaired by CSE Operational Lead
Multi agency meeting
Information sharing
Consider any assessments undertaken
Decisions about action to be taken to safeguard child
or young person
• Manage identified risks
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CSE Strategy Meeting
• S47 investigation or assessment process
• Criminal investigation
• Consider how immediate risks will be managed and the need for a
multi agency Risk Management Plan
• Identify any early evidence of neglect, emotional abuse, physical
abuse or sexual abuse by family members and consider need for
ICPC
• Agree strategy for engaging with the parents/young person
• Identify support for family members
• Consider whether any other C & YP are potentially at risk
• Identify any cross border issues
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CSE Strategy Meeting
Further CSE Strategy Meetings may be held to plan
action and manage risks up to the point where:
• Case is stepped down for an Early Help response
• Case is closed
• Child In Need Plan or Child Protection Plan is in place
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CSE Strategy Meeting
ALL children and young people who are
subject to a CSE Strategy Meeting will be
referred to the CSE Panel
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CSE Panel Meeting
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Maintain an overview of emerging child sexual exploitation issues
Seek assurance about local response for individual C & YP
Receive and consider low level or non-child specific intelligence
Establish links between children and offenders
Co-ordinate police response in respect of known or suspected
perpetrators
• Identify any cross border issues
• Identify any issues in respect of young vulnerable adults
• Track emergent patterns or themes and identify any local
‘hotspots’
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CSE Panel Meeting
• Chaired by CSE Strategic Lead (DI for Public
Protection, West Mercia Police)
• Standing membership representing range of agencies
and to include CSE Operational Lead
• Monthly meetings
• Dedicated resource currently being finalised and
Terms of Reference being developed
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Missing Children, CSE and Trafficking
Task Group
• Sub group of WSCB
• Analyse data and outcomes for C & YP
• Develop strategic response to emergent themes and
patterns
• Identify gaps and weaknesses in processes
• Develop strategies for service user feedback
• Review training and communication needs
• Consider strategic cross border issues
• Report to LSCB
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Monitoring and Evaluation
• Data
• Review of systems
• Multi Agency Case File Audits
• Feedback from young people and their families
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Case Studies