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INTRODUCTIONThis strategy is owned and presented by Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board.The goal is to:secure an effective partnership response to the challenge of childsexual exploitation (CSE) in order to maximise our ability to safeguardchildren and young people from the risk of CSE and provide aneffective services to children and young people who are victims ofCSE. The strategy expresses the commitment of BSCB and its partnerorganisations to understand and tackle child sexual exploitation inBarnsley in terms of prevention, protection and prosecution.PurposeThe focus of the strategy is to:• keep children and young people at the heart of planning and deliveringservices• learn from national best practice• define and understand child sexual exploitation and the implications at astrategic level through to front line practice.• assess risk in the borough based upon intelligence, incidents and activitydata• take forward a plan based upon the principles of prevention, protection andprosecution• be clear about accountability, roles and responsibilities at an individual,agency and partnership level• ensure action plans are in place to deliver all the key requirementsDEFINITIONThe Statutory Guidance on Safeguarding Children and Young People from ChildSexual Exploitation 2009 defines CSE as:"sexual exploitation of children and young people under 18 involves exploitativesituations, contexts and relationships where young people (or a third person orpersons) receive something (e.g. food, accommodation, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes,affection, gifts, money) as a result of them performing and/or another or othersperforming on them sexual activities. Child sexual exploitation can be via the useof technology without the child's immediate recognition; for example beingpersuaded to post sexual images on the internet/mobile phones without immediatepayment or gain. In all cases, those exploiting the child/young person have powerover them by virtue of their age, gender, intellect, physical strength and/oreconomic or other resources. Violence, coercion and intimidation are common,involvement in exploitative relationships being characterised in the main by thechild or young person's limited availability of choice resulting from theirsocial/economic and/or emotional vulnerability."2
Whilst CSE can take a number of forms three areas have been identified byBarnardo's:• inappropriate relationships involving a lone perpetrator who hasinappropriate power or control over a young person, whether physical(including domestic abuse), emotional or economic. There is likely to be asignificant age gap between the perpetrator and victim. The young personmay believe that they are in a loving, equal relationship.• the "boyfriend" model of exploitation and peer exploitation - the perpetratorbefriends and grooms a young person into a "relationship" and subsequentlycoerces them to have sex with friends or associates. This includes gangexploitation and peer on peer exploitation.• elements of organised/net worked sexual exploitation or trafficking - youngpeople (often connected)are passed through networks possibly overgeographical distances between towns and cities, where they may beforced/ coerced into sexual activity with multiple men. Often this occurs at'sex parties', and young people who are involved may be used as agents torecruit others into the network. Some of this activity is described as seriousorganised crime and can involve the organised 'buying and selling' of youngpeople by perpetrators.Barnardos: Puppet on a String 2011 www.barnardos.org.ukNATIONAL CONTEXTNationally sexual exploitation and abuse is increasing and CEOP indicated in thePuppet on a String report that there was a 16% on year increase from 5,411reports in 2008/09 to 6291 in 2009/10 .Recent studies have provided some indication of the prevalence of CSE. A 2005research study carried out in London found 507 individual cases where CSE wasknown or indicated with a further 1,002 young people estimated to be at risk acrossall London boroughs (Harper and Scott 2005). A 2011 research study found thaton one date in 2011, 1,065 sexually exploited young people were worked with innine areas of England (Jago et al 2011). The Office of the Children'sCommissioner for England (OCCE) inquiry into CSE in gangs and groups foundthat there were 2049 confirmed victims of CSE in either gangs or groups during a14 month period from 2010 to 2011 (Berelowitz et al, 2012). Barnardo's workedwith 1,185 young people in its Sexual Exploitation Services in England in 2011-12,a 19% increase on the previous year.source: Running from Hate to what you think is Love - Barnardo'shttp://www.barnardos.org.uk/15505 cse running from hate 21 web.pdfBARNSLEY CONTEXTIn line with national concerns CSE is currently one of the most importantchallenges facing Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board.The Board recognises that Child Sexual Exploitation can have a serious long termand lasting impact on children and young people affecting physical and emotionalhealth and wellbeing, educational attainment, personal safety, relationships andfuture life opportunities. The impact of CSE on family life can also be significantplacing considerable strain on all family members and increasing the risk of family3
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