Child Sexual Exploitation
Local Picture and Your
Responsibility
2015
So what is CSE ???
• Someone taking advantage of you sexually,
for their own benefit.
• Through threats, bribes, violence, humiliation
or by saying they love you, they will have the
power to get you to do sexual things for their
own, or others benefit or enjoyment
(including touching or kissing private parts,
sex, taking sexual photos).
Young Women’s Group & The Children’s Society, 2008.
CSE in 2015
• Offenders will use different ways to
groom children into sending them
indecent images of themselves, by
using social media e.g. Facebook,
Snapchat, Instagram etc to get what
they want.
• Sometimes it’s the people we trust who
take advantage of us.
Safeguarding
• If you were to come across an incident
when CSE was suspected, you have an
obligation to follow your normal
safeguarding procedures.
• Consult your Designated Lead and they
will advise on the best form of action.
What is sexting ???
• A ‘sext’ doesn’t have to be an indecent
photograph of a young person. It could
also be a sexual text message, voice
message, or even video.
• An indecent photo of a young person
doesn’t have to be fully nude, it can be
partially nude also.
Consequences …
• It could go viral around school.
It could even go world wide.
• Legal action could potentially be taken
against a person and the police could get
involved.
Consequences …
Local Picture
• SEAM Process
• 59 young people open to SEAM
• 11% of young people at risk have also been MFH
• Multiple methods of coercion used by perpetrators to groom young people
• Only 2.4% of referrals submitted originated from schools
• Increase in the number of prosecutions for CSE related offences
• Due to small pieces of intelligence coming in we can now identify CSE hotspots and target offenders
Referrals … Child, young person, professional, member of public has concerns re: CSE.
Referral to be made to Specialist Assessment Service/Duty 01942 828300, clearly
identifying CSE concerns. NB all professionals to complete PRF
(link to safeguard website for PRF).
Information generated with Specialist Assessment Service as contact and
transferred to CSE Team manager via LL work space
Daily Governance and planning meeting to consider all new contacts received,
sharing multi agency information to determine need and actions required.
Decision within 24 hours by Team Manager or Senior Social Worker
Threshold regarding significant harm not met
Phoenix Risk Assessment to be allocated to
CSE team member. To be completed in
consultation with Early Help Process
Review of case within CH meetings, 4 weekly
attended by CSE worker. Review of plan and
inform on-going interventions and risk
reduction plans.
NB. Review meetings to be held in line with
identified risk need / risk. 4 weekly is guidance,
however dependent on individual can be held
more frequently.
Should safeguarding concerns be identified,
CSE Team Manager to consider need for case
to be subject of social care intervention and
completion of C&F Assessment.
As part of any planning and intervention
consideration must be given to 3rd party
intelligence which may include other young
people / adults / places. This information must
be considered, Mapping Meetings will assist in
making links, identifying themes and developing
wider intelligence which can inform future
planning.
Mapping, disruption and Risk Reduction will
need to be considered in all case work and
intervention.
Threshold regarding significant harm
met; case allocated to Social Worker /
or Senior Social Worker for Child
&Family assessment to be completed.
Phoenix Risk Assessment to be
completed in conjunction with this.
Following Child &Family Assessment,
CIN / CP / LAC meeting to be held. If
long term social care intervention is
required including CSE work, case to
transfer to locality where a Social
Worker will be allocated. The CSE
worker will then become ‘co worker’
and continue to inform planning and
Risk Reduction specifically focussing
on the CSE concerns identified.
CSE CONCERNS RAISED
Contact generated by allocated Social Worker and
sent to CSE Team Manager via Liquid Logic
CSE Team Manager to review concerns and allocate
to CSE worker. Contact to be shared within the daily
governance and planning meeting, CSE worker and
co-worker on Liquid Logic. CSE episode to be
created on Liquid Logic
Allocated CSE worker to complete Phoenix Risk
Assessment, direct work, mapping and disruption to
ensure the early identification of risk which can be
responded to via disruption tactics. All information to
be recorded within Liquid Logic CSE workspace –
Phoenix Risk Assessment to be reviewed 3 monthly.
CSE worker to attend all CIN / CP / LAC meetings
held to share information re intervention meetings
and inform planning.
Should safeguarding
concerns be raised resulting
in the need for a strategy
discussion this will be
shared by the CSE Team.
The CSE Team Manager /
SSW the allocated SW will
be invited to attend.
As part of any planning and
intervention consideration
must be given to 3rd party
intelligence which may
include other young people
/ adults / places. This
information must be
considered, Mapping
Meetings will assist in
making links, identifying
themes and developing
wider intelligence which can
inform future planning.
Mapping, disruption and
Risk Reduction will need to
be considered in all case
work and intervention.
Cases Open to Social Care
Bridgewater Community Health Care
Trust/Brook
Carlene Baines – Named Nurse for
Looked After Children
01942 481161
Youth Offending Team (YOT)
Phil Adamson
01942 487100
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Service (CAMHS)
Mary Hamill
01942 775400
Gateway Service (Borough Wide
Vulnerable Team)
Sarah Halsall – Senior Practitioner
01942 487080
Wendi Hyland-Smith – Gateway
Worker
01942 487080
Greater Manchester Police (GMP)
Detective Inspector Joanne Clawson
0161 856 7906
Fostering Team
Lynn Kitchen – Senior Social Worker
01942 487227
CSE Team
Jacqui Whittaker 0161 856 7399
Social Care
Cheryl Hilton – CSE Team Manager
Karen Dack – Social Worker
01942 828451
Children in Care and Care Leavers
Team
Lynne Bennett – Team Manager
01942 487150
Barbara Brown – Team Manager
01942 487150
Education
Catherine Pealing – Service Manager
01942 486146
Wigan and Leigh Housing
Deborah Morris – Safeguarding Lead
for Children, YP & Vulnerable Adults
01942 486545
Barnardos
Paula HUME – Targeted Sexual Health
Services Manager
01942 483200
BROOK
Claire Abbott 01942 483180
Don’t be scared of
messing up
• No serious case review has ever held an
agency to account for sharing information,
however they have done so when
agencies haven't shared information.
• Agencies are there for a reason, don’t be
frightened of asking for help, information
or guidance.
Any Questions