Make Safeguarding Children from Sexual Exploitation a Performance Target for Police and Local Safeguarding Children Boards

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Girls and boys in the UK are targeted and groomed for sexual exploitation by individual and networks of pimps and traffickers. Once groomed they are given drugs, raped, prostituted, battered and subjected to horrific violence and abuse. The process of sexual exploitation involves many different elements of crime which comes to the attention of agencies under different headings, such as children who are missing from home, truanting school, using drugs, prostituted, abducted, raped or murdered.

Of the thousands of children targeted for sexual exploitation, at least 90% go missing as a result of being groomed and are moved from their homes to other towns and cities to be sexually exploited. These children suffer the same traumas as the victims of international trafficking, but few perpetrators are charged, for example, under the trafficking offences, fewer than 1\% of the perpetrators are prosecuted. Lack of recognition of this complex hidden process as one crime, prevents understanding the true scale of the problem across the UK.

We welcome the government?'s new policies and strategic reviews, but children are still being abused by pimps and traffickers. A way of tackling this problem would be to have specific statutory targets for the police and local safeguarding children boards to ensure the implementation of guidance on safeguarding sexually exploited children.

We call upon the UK Government to take necessary action, both nationally and in each local authority, to ensure:

the practical IMPLEMENTATION of relevant guidance and legislation

its MONITORING

publicly available REPORTS on progress
We urge everyone who believes in the need to protect our children, our country?'s future to sign up to this Petition. It?'s never too late to make a difference.

1045 Signatures

  • rebekah luckings
  • Nicola Hawkwood
  • Louise Spragg
  • Shirley Wildman
  • annie williams
  • Betty Lowther
  • Patricia Lenihan, RSC
  • Cecilia Rafter
  • Maree Henderson
  • Patricia Byrne
    • Comments
    • Only when safeguarding children from sexual exploitation is linked to performance targets will it be given the priority it deserves
  • Linda Carson
  • Gill Osborn
    • Comments
    • Sammy Osborn missing since 3rd April 2007
  • Pamela from Ireland
    • Comments
    • Urgent to implement and for many of us common sense to put resources into.
  • Peter Godfrey
  • Maureen and Roy Mole
    • Comments
    • Get these people off the streets
  • Christine Ingram
  • elaine
    • Comments
    • this should already be a target and is long overdue.......friend of gill osborn
  • Elizabeth Leebody
  • Heidi Shearman
  • Maria Laverty
    • Comments
    • Children deserve our respect. Act now.
  • Darren Smith
    • Comments
    • I'm 6' 2" and 18st. Pimp Me.
  • walter birch
  • Elizia Volkmann
    • Comments
    • There should be a specialised police unit devoted to tackling this problem in all major towns and cities
  • Rob Forsyth
    • Comments
    • Get rid of the pimps and charge the Johns with aggravated sexual assault (with an accomplice)
  • anna hibberd
  • Anuradha
  • Haddon Willmer
  • Bindu Issac
  • Vikram Kona
  • meghana joshi
    • Comments
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  • Xi Guo
    • Comments
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  • Prof.R.Venkata Rao
  • Faisal Buttar
  • Omer Bin Zia
  • Steve Pickering
  • Carole March
  • Emilie Smeaton
  • Ruth Beattie
  • Val Harris
  • Emma Wickenden
  • Barbara Thomas
  • punati mutthaiah
  • Wendy Shepherd
    • Comments
    • This is imperative if we are truly going to safegaurd children
  • John Davis
  • Patricia Royle-Evatt
  • Alison Robertshaw
  • Katarzyna Archanowicz
  • Adam Bell
  • Sarah Booth
  • Rachel Loise
    • Comments
    • there is lack of training and consistency in law enforcement and safeguarding children boards with lach of dedicated sexual exploitation services, services for children and family supoprt from the staturtory sector.