Cordis Pulse: March 2022

Cordis Pulse 22 March 2022

Cordis Pulse: March 2022

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The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published its report on Child sexual exploitation by organised networks. It highlighted extensive failures by local authorities and police forces. The report notes that children are being sexually exploited by networks in all parts of England and Wales in the ‘most degrading and destructive ways’, with many exploited children raped or sexually assaulted repeatedly, over a period of months or even years. Failures are partly the result of flawed assumptions that child sexual exploitation was decreasing, when in fact, it has become more of a hidden problem, increasingly underreported when only linked to other forms of criminal behaviour such as county lines. Organisations are also failing to keep pace with the changing nature of child sexual exploitation by networks.

This report presents some worrying findings that, unfortunately, mirror our own experiences of helping organisations effectively and responsively tackle this issue. The overlap between child sexual exploitation and child criminal exploitation means that children are too often treated as perpetrators and not victims. The wide range of needs that these children present with means that organisations often struggle to provide adequate and meaningful support. Findings from this report reaffirm the need for multi-agency working to effectively tackle issues of child sexual exploitation. If you would like to discuss these issues further, please email Kam Kaur at kamkaur@cordisbright.co.uk.

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