When working with parents whose children have been affected by exploitation professionals should follow safeguarding procedures but it is also important to be relatable. Services across Bedfordshire including FACES, Link to Change and the VERU YIS team have contributed to the attached document. A lot of the points and comments Read more…
Here are some of the documents we have been working on at YouTurn to support partners in the fight against violence and exploitation in Bedfordshire. They are available to professionals to provide information and a reference to the available support when they are working with families who are effected. Parents Read more…
Please click the link below to view a one page info-graphic where many tool kits and guidance documents, in regards to exploitation, can be accessed and downloaded. Exploitation Practitioner Documents – Infographic
Please click on the links below to access Bedfordshire guidance documents, screening tools and information in regards to tackling Child Exploitation and Child Sexual Exploitation. Beds Child Exploitation tool – Jan 2021 -Update Identifying and Responding to adult exploitation – Bedfordshire – Jan 2021 Multi-agency-information-submission-form-accessible- Aug 2020 Pan-Beds-MA-information form-guidelines – Read more…
During these unprecedented and uncertain times as a county we must remember that exploitation does not end because of the Coronavirus lock down and social distancing measures put in place by the government . There has been a shift and increase in online exploitation and grooming, as well as domestic Read more…
Bedfordshire has become the first county to launch the Home Office Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit, which gives front line practitioners the guidance they need to disrupt perpetrators and safeguard children from being exploited. More than 70 people attended the briefing sessions at the Rufus Centre in Flitwick on Friday (22 Read more…
Early last week YouTurn travelled to Cambridgeshire Police HQ in Huntingdon for the NWG (National Working Group) conference on Disruption and exploitation. The aim of the day was to learn what other areas are doing to tackle and disrupt CSE and CCE (Child Criminal Exploitation) perpetrators and also to find Read more…
CSE Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) is a hugely distressing form of sexual, emotional and physical abuse of children. It can be extremely difficult to recognise as many of the warning signs are symptomatic of challenges that all parents of adolescent or near adolescent children face. In Bedfordshire, we are committed Read more…