Sheffield Safeguarding Children Board
Sexual Exploitation Service
Jo Davies
A Multi-Agency Service
•Safeguarding Children Board
•South Yorkshire Police
•Sheffield Futures – Taking Stock
How to Refer
 Contact SES
201 8645/3
 Access and Assessment
275 35114 West
203 7463 East
203 9591 North
273 8455 Out of hours
 Taking Stock – For advice
201 8640
What is Sexual Exploitation?
DCSF Definition of Sexual
Exploitation
 Sexual exploitation of children and young
people under 18 involves exploitative
situations, contexts and relationships where
young people (or a third person or persons)
receive ‘something’ (e.g. food, accommodation,
drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, affection, gifts,
money) as a result them performing, and/or
another or others performing on them, sexual
activities.
DCSF Definition of Sexual
Exploitation
 Child sexual exploitation can occur
through the use of technology without the
child’s immediate recognition; for
example being persuaded to post sexual
images on the internet/mobile phones
without immediate payment or gain.
DCSF Definition of Sexual
Exploitation
 In all cases, those exploiting the child/young
person have power over them by virtue of their
age, gender, intellect, physical strength and/or
economic or other resources. Violence,
coercion and intimidation are common,
involvement in exploitative relationships being
characterised in the main by the child or young
person’s limited availability of choice resulting
from their social/economic and/or emotional
vulnerability
How do we know if a young
person is at risk?
Risk Indicators
Key
•Not attending school
•Missing from home
•Breaking away from family and friends
•Associating with older people
Other indicators
•Unexplained mobile phones/ credit
•Accepting lifts in different cars
•Experimenting with drugs and alcohol
•Travelling to other locations
•Secretive
Internet/ mobile technology
•Spending increasing amounts of time on social networking sites
•Sending and receiving inappropriate images
Differences-Boys
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Chaotic offending behaviour
Links with sex offenders
Links with violent offenders
Links with adults involved in prostitution
Gay Press
Sexuality -gay, heterosexual?
Exploring sexuality
Exploring the Risks
 How could you explore CSE risks with
young people?
 What advice/ information could you give?
Exploring the Risks
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Positive relationships
Peer Pressure
Self Esteem
Staying safe
Sexual health
Negotiation
Pressures, expectations and stereotypes
Modelling positive relationships
Where to get help
Young People and the
Internet
The Internet is such an integral part of young
people’s lives these days. It opens up so
many educational and social opportunities
giving them access to, quite literally, a world
of information and resources.
Whether on a computer at school, a laptop at
home, a games console or mobile phone,
young people are increasingly accessing
the internet whenever or wherever they can.
(CEOP)
WHAT ARE THE RISKS?
Sexual Exploitation and
Technology
 Online Grooming
 Uploading and sharing of inappropriate
images
 BBM/ Private Messaging
 Wish Lists
 Gaming Credits
 Exchanging images/ performing on a
webcam
 Pornography
What Are The Risks?
 Young people feel safe
 Do not apply the ‘stranger danger’
concept
 Don’t guard their information
 Unaware of legalities
 Accept sexualised images as ‘normal’
 Trust their friends ‘networks’ without
question
 ‘Friends’ = Popularity
Technology
 Modern technology is increasingly used as a
tool by offenders to meet and control YP for the
purposes of SE
 YP are instantly accessible
 Contact is private and untraceable
 Boundaries between online and offline
exploitation becoming increasingly blurred
 YP are ‘normalising’ sexual images by
participating themselves
Exploring E Safety
 How would you explore ‘staying safe’ with
young people?
 What advice/ Information would you
give?
Exploring E Safety
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Profile security
What is a friend?
Safeguarding personal information
What is an inappropriate image?
Media
Peer Pressure
Self Esteem
Risk Assessment
Where do the images go?
Where to get help (CEOP Report Abuse Button/ Website)
Early Intervention
 SES work from the starting point that ALL
young people are potentially at risk
 More so with advances in technology
 Working with young people from an early age
to build resilience, confidence, relationship and
negotiation skills is very important
 This can begin from a very early age in it’s
most basic form
QUESTIONS?