‘What's Going On’ to Safeguard Children and Young People from Child Sexual Exploitation: A Review of Local Safeguarding Children Boards’ Work to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny J. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation

Understanding trauma and its relevance to child sexual exploitation

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-172
Author(s):  
Kristine Hickle
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Complex Trauma ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice ◽  
Trauma Responses ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides a brief overview of the research on trauma, specifically in relation to the impact of developmental and complex trauma and sexual abuse. An overview of the growing body of research on trauma-informed approaches to practice is also given. It considers how trauma responses are developed while enduring extreme stress, and how these responses may be evident among children and young people with child sexual exploitation (CSE) experiences. The chapter also considers how systems designed to protect and support traumatised children and young people often contribute to their re-traumatisation. It explores principles of trauma-informed practice that are useful in meeting the needs of young people victimised by CSE, discusses how trauma-informed approaches align with strengths-based and relationship-based approaches to CSE practice, and how such approaches can help practitioners understand and promote resilience.

Strengthening (Re)integration from Child Sexual Exploitation: Children and Young People’s Recommendations

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
Lopa Bhattacharjee ◽  
Helen J. Veitch
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Financial Independence ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
New Community

This article explores care leavers’ views and recommendations for practitioners and policymakers on the transition from leaving care to living independently in the community. Seven young adults fully reintegrated through programmes in Kathmandu, Nepal, co-produced action research with 21 of their peers (aged 16–26 years). This article outlines how children and young people affected by child sexual exploitation experience community reintegration, and their views on the key issues, reintegration services need to consider. Findings explored boys’ and girls’ experiences of stigma and discrimination by community members and revolved around social and cultural norms and narratives on masculinity and femininity that denied their victimhood. This article focuses on the theme of independence as it appears to reflect a changing context for reintegration practitioners in South Asia. Children and young people had not been reintegrated in their family; instead, they were living independently—a situation that can be described as ‘integration’ (with an urban community) rather than ‘reintegration’ (with their family of origin). Research participants’ exploration of ‘independence’ reflected this context and was defined as emotional or financial independence. The research appears to identify an adaptation to reintegration services to enable a smoother transition for care leavers. Most models of reintegration assume that children will ‘reintegrate’ with their families of origin. This research found that children sexually exploited in Kathmandu chose to ‘integrate’ into a new community to overcome isolation, exclusion and non-acceptance by their families and communities of origin and, in so doing, experienced emotional and financial independence. In this context, successful integration requires the provision of activities for parents that explain indicators of trauma so that they can appropriately support their children. In addition, support for care leavers targeted on psychosocial wellbeing, life-skills and income generation enables young people to live independently from their families and be ‘integrated’ into an urban community.

scholarly journals Roma Children and Young People in Bulgaria: Patterns of Risk and Effective Protection in Relation to Child Sexual Exploitation

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate D'Arcy ◽  
Isabelle Brodie
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Prosecution Strategies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Children In Care ◽  
Comparative Information

This article examines patterns of risk regarding child sexual exploitation (CSE). There is specific focus on those living in alternative care, child sexual exploitation and trafficking among Roma communities in Bulgaria and the UK. Data is drawn from a desk-based literature review and partnership work with Bulgarian and British academics and practitioners to explore the issues in both countries. Although there is limited statistical data on CSE and children in care across Europe and the risk-factors for Roma children and young people are still not being fully recognised, we can draw on what is known in Bulgaria to inform practice in the UK with emerging Roma communities. Research on CSE more generally can also inform awareness of risk factors particularly around care systems. Comparative information about what is known in the UK and Bulgaria is considered in order to make some recommendations for international prevention, protection efforts, and prosecution strategies for the future.

Some concluding thoughts

2019 ◽  
pp. 247-250
Author(s):  
Jenny Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sexually Exploited Children

This chapter returns the discussion to the relationship between theory and practice in child sexual exploitation (CSE) intervention. It also tracks the broader implications of such an approach in related fields. While the sexual exploitation of children is the focus of this book, the ideas within it can be used to explore a range of forms of exploitation and abuse of children. Furthermore, these perspectives and political and economic concerns are explored in the book with sexually exploited children in mind, they are transferable to other exploitative contexts facing a range of children and young people. In addition, the chapter discusses some further avenues for exploration and implementation, including options for the setting up or reform of a service for children and young people.

Making Sense of Child Sexual Exploitation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Childhood Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Experienced Child ◽  
The Individual

This important book puts forward the rarely heard voices of children and young people who have experienced child sexual exploitation (CSE) and the professionals who have worked with them. CSE is now high on the social care agenda, but what is child sexual exploitation? How is it different from other forms of child sexual abuse? Hallett takes a critical perspective and argues that we need to use the exchange model - lost in the current focus on grooming - to answer these questions. She considers the problems that arise with conflating ‘child sexual exploitation’ with ‘grooming’ and the implications for the ways in which we respond to CSE and for the individual children and young people caught up in it. Central to the discussion are themes such as youth, childhood, care and power, making for an important sociological contribution to this under-researched field, whilst also providing new and valuable practice and policy relevant insights into this issue. The book challenges the dominant way of thinking about CSE and is essential reading for those working or training to work with children and young people.

scholarly journals Vulnerability and child sexual exploitation: Towards an approach grounded in life experiences

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Brown
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Social Marginality ◽  
Northern City

As child sexual exploitation (CSE) has risen towards the top of the UK’s political agenda, the concept of vulnerability has become a central frame through which to understand and address the issue. This article analyses problems with the concept of vulnerability as it is commonly understood in relation to CSE, taking first steps towards developing an empirically-grounded account of the notion which is more sensitive to the lived realities of victimhood for sexually exploited young people. Drawing on data from participatory qualitative research into life stories of ‘moving on’ from CSE in a large Northern city in England, the article illustrates how vulnerability is shaped through individual factors, situational dynamics and structural forces, connected by human agency through time. It argues that to respond effectively to vulnerability within the field of CSE, we need to move beyond discussion of ‘risk factors’ and denial of agency, towards an understanding of intersectional social divisions, social marginality, ‘critical moments’ and how these shape the investments and actions of vulnerable young people.

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