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Child Exploitation

This page provides guidance on how we respond to child exploitation, both criminal and sexual as well as other forms of harm outside the home within the Bailiwick.

Multi Agency Child Exploitation Framework 2024

Multi-agency practitioner procedural guidance has been developed to provide a framework which describes the terms of reference and arrangements in the Bailiwick of Guernsey for responding to the challenges of protecting children and young people exposed to exploitation. 

Children and young people made vulnerable to exploitation require a response which takes a holistic view to safeguarding and this extends the focus from previous documentation, which focused essentailly on child sexual exploitation, in recognition that exploitation can occur through different forums and often amongst other vulnerabilities which children and young people are exposed to. 

Arrangements now consider exploitation as a broader concept encompassing, but not limited to, sexual and criminal exploitation both of which interconnect with risks and vulnerabilities such as missing, child trafficking, county lines, modern slavery, gangs and youth violence. These risks must be considered within a contextual safeguarding framework to effectively understand and respond to young people's experiences of significant harm beyond their families. 

Recognising that the different relationships young people form in their community, schools/colleges and online can feature violence and abuse and involve grooming in a way that disguises exploitation intent, to the extent that children/young people believe these relationships are genuine. 

Children & Family Community Services and wider safeguarding partnerships aim to engage with individuals and sectors who have influence over/within extra-familial contexts and recognise that assessment of and intervention with these spaces are a critical part of the safeguarding process. 

The Framework will be uploaded here shortly.