Sexual exploitation: safeguarding children and young people

“Excellent, I will put new skills into practice.”
Course participant, East Sussex County Council

Young people are increasingly being drawn into sexually exploitative situations. Internet grooming, peer pressure to get involved in paid sexual activity and trafficking of young people are all issues which professionals working with young people have to consider.

This course aims to highlight some of these topics for staff working with young people, to make the risk indicators easier to spot and to discuss appropriate interventions.

Aim

To increase participants’ awareness of sexual exploitation as a form of sexual abuse and enable them to identify vulnerability factors and risk indicators.

Learning outcomes

• Identify what makes young people (male and female) vulnerable to sexual exploitation.
• Use an assessment tool to identify risk indicators.
• Understand the grooming process.
• Be aware of the law, guidance, policies and procedures around sexual exploitation and young people.
• Discuss society’s values and attitudes to young people, sexual activity and sexual exploitation.
• Develop skills to advocate for young people at risk of sexual exploitation.

Number of days

One