The International Centre for the Study of Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Young People - interim report

This special edition of the What’s Going On? newsletter To prevent the sexual exploitation of children and young people reports on what has been found to be happening in LSCBs across the country in response to child sexual exploitation.

The data from initial questionnaires completed by over a hundred LSCBs give an indication of the level of response in England:

• there are 29 sexual exploitation coordinators in posts across
the country – representing fewer than a quarter of LSCBs

• there are current protocols in operation in less than a
quarter of LSCBs

• there are sub groups addressing sexual exploitation in
just over a quarter of LSCBs

• there is a specialist project in just a quarter of LSCB areas

• ten years on from the introduction of a dual strategy of
protecting young people and proactively investigating their
abusers, a third of the country has no plans for the delivery of such a strategy.

For further information:
Whats Going On Special Edition pdf (915.36 KB)