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A right to be protected: Article 19 UNCRC

Sue BerelowitzDeputy Children’s Commissioner/Chief Executive

Definition: sexual exploitation (DfE 2009)

• Exploitative situations, contexts and relationships where young people receive something as a result of them performing and/or others performing on them, sexual activities

• Use of technology• In all cases, those exploiting the child/young

person have power over them• Violence, coercion and intimidation are common

Definition: Group associated

• Sexual exploitation carried out by multiple perpetrators who are connected through formal or informal associations or networks between themselves or between victims

• Can involve individual, repeat or multiple victims

• “Group” refers specifically to the numbers of perpetrators involved in the violence and abuse

Definition: gang (John Pitts, 2008 plus CSJ, 2009)

• A relatively durable, predominantly street-based, social group of children, young people, and, not infrequently, adults, who see themselves, and are seen by others, as affiliates of a discrete, named group who engage in criminal activity and violence, identify or lay claim to territory, have identifying structure, are in conflict with other groups

Definition: gang associated• Sexual exploitation that involves one or multiple

perpetrators who are themselves gang associated and where the cse takes place as a form of intra or inter-gang related violence

• “Gang associated” refers specifically to the motive of the violence and/or gang association of the perpetrator and/or victim, rather than the number of perpetrators involved