Updated: Child Sexual Exploitation Definition and Guidance August 2017 download here
This definition and guidance for professionals on Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) has been agreed for use by the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland and its member agencies. This document has been developed by the CSE Knowledge Transfer Partnership NI and draws on a wide range of research and practice learning to provide professionals working with children and young people, with an introduction to the issue of CSE.
False Freedom
‘False Freedom’ is a new film made by young people in NI for young people, to highlight the issues around child sexual exploitation.
The film shows how grooming for exploitation can be played out in real life, and depicts a young girl who finds herself in an exploitative relationship.
The young people volunteered through Barnardo's Safe Choices, and both wrote and acted in the film.
The aim of the DVD and the accompanying resource pack is to alert young people to the dangers around sexual exploitation and generate discussion about the issues with the aim of empowering young people to make safe choices for themselves. False Freedom is designed to be used in any setting from schools to youth clubs with young people aged 12 years and above.
Please take a look at the full version of the DVD and accompanying Resource Pack.
The DVD and resource pack is free of charge and is available from Barnardo’s NI. For further information contact: Jacqui.montgomery@barnardos.org.uk.
The film was funded by the Public Health Agency as part of the CSE Knowledge Transfer Partnership NI and the resource pack is jointly funded by the Safeguarding Board NI, PSNI and St James Place Foundation.
Policies, procedures, leaflets etc
- DOH - Co-Operating to Safeguard Children and Young People Policy (August 2017)
- Social Media policies
- Child Sexual Exploitation Definition and Guidance for Professionals October 2014
- Child Sexual Exploitation - the 5Ts. A guide for children and young people
- Child Sexual Exploitation - a guide for parents and carers
- Child Sexual Exploitation - a guide for those working with children and young people
- Young person's guide to child protection (under 12s)
- Young person's guide to child protection (over 12s)
- SBNI Regional Core Policy and Procedures (online): http://www.proceduresonline.com/sbni/
- Protecting our children - a guide for parents
- The safe parenting handbook
- Police Involvement in Residential Units - Safeguarding of Children Missing from Home and Foster Care: Regional guidance
- Protocol for Joint Investigation by Social Workers & Police Officers of Alleged Abuse & Suspected Cases of Child Abuse
- Missing Children Protocol (runaway and missing from home and care)
Useful resources
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DHSSPS and DoJ's ‘Stopping Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse in Northern Ireland’ Strategy, Children and Young People’s Version, is available at: www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/publications/stopping-domestic-and-sexual-violence-and-abuse-northern-ireland-strategy
- Safeguarding Board Act (Northern Ireland) 2011
- The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (Membership, Procedure, Functions and Committee) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012
- DoH ‘Co-operating to Safeguard Children and Young People’ (revised August 2017)
- SBNI Regional Core Policy and Procedures (online)
- National Referral Mechanism - Guidance for Child First Responders
- E-Safety: Sources of Help and Support
- Sexting And The Law: a basic guide to help professionals and the public deal with incidents of ‘sexting’
- SBNI Learning and Development Strategy
- Nexus NI's 'Kidz Internet Safety Source' ('KISS') is available here
- SBNI Language and Guidance Around Online Offending
- SBNI Glossary for Guidance for Media on Reporting Online Abuse and Offences
- 'Safeguarding Disabled Children and Young People: A Scoping Exercise of Statutory Child Protection Services for Disabled Children and Young People in Northern Ireland' (Dr Berni Kelly and Dr Sandra Dowling)
- Guidance to the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland
- 'Pathways to harm, pathways to protection: a triennial analysis of serious case reviews 2011 to 2014' (Dept. for Edcuation, May 2016)
- Top tips to help prevent bullying in parent/carer toolkit: Northern Ireland Anti-Bullying Forum (NIABF) Parent/Carer Toolkit 2016
- The Northern Ireland Executive have recently launched a child-friendly version of their Programme for Government consultation document. You can view the document here.
- The National FGM Centre: http://www.nationalfgmcentre.org.uk/
- 'Shout Out, Speak Out' leaflet- information on the sexual exploitation of boys and young men
- 'Shout Out, Speak Out' poster- includes signposting to useful telphone contacts
- Link to film raising awareness of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) their potential to damage health across the life course and the roles that different agencies can play in preventing ACEs and supporting those affected by them (produced for Public Health Wales and Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority
- Supporting Young Carers in School: An Introduction for Primary and Secondary School Staff (Health and Social Care Board/Education Authority Northern Ireland)
- FGM Poster
- FGM Leaflet
- FGM Pathway and Risk Assessment Framework
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