When Children and Young Adults are targeted, groomed and exploited, they rarely talk about what has happened to them for a variety of reasons and this results in Safeguarding partners wondering how they will be able to safeguard them effectively.

Frequently there is too much emphasis placed upon the victim/survivor to provide a detailed disclosure and an absence of such leads to a fear that, “little, if anything, can be done”.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business and therefore, all partners have a responsibility to feel confident and competent to discuss a community partnership approach to designing and implementing effective disruption plans. This conversation should inform and underpin every safety plan and risk assessment, for every child/young adult experiencing, or at risk of exploitation.

This year, we are very excited to announce that our “Interrupting and Disrupting the Exploitation of Children and Young Adults” Training has been refreshed and is being relaunched.

The 3-hour session will include;

• An NRM module
• Links to our Disruption toolkit that tackles Child and Adult Exploitation
• References to our newly developing Disruption Case library
• Real-life and recent case examples of different types of Modern Slavery and Trafficking
• An input from Police Officers who have ‘hands-on’ experience of applying for and being granted, Slavery and Trafficking Risk and Protection Orders.
• How mapping tools and professional curiosity will fill intelligence gaps and enable exploitation to be investigated, in the absence of a disclosure.