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Tomorrow, Tuesday 18th March 2025, is Child Exploitation Awareness Day.
Child exploitation is a form of abuse that involves the manipulation and/or coercion of young people under the age of 18.
The NWG Network are committed to the fight against criminal or sexual child exploitation and supporting victims, and their families, who are subjected to the horrors of exploitation in all forms.
Exploitation can happen to any child, anywhere. Therefore, on Child Exploitation Awareness Day, we are encouraging everyone to think, spot and speak out against abuse and adopt a zero tolerance to child exploitation #CEADay25.
The NGW Network have created a SWAY to allow you to read more about how you can support Child Exploitation Awareness Day. You will find free downloads, social media images, resources, helpful links and key messages to help you make your awareness-raising as impactful as possible.
The SWAY can be accessed here: National Child Exploitation Awareness Day 2025 #CEADay25
For further information, you can also visit the Stop CE website, which includes resources you can use within your organisation to support Child Exploitation Awareness Day.
You can also find a range of information regarding Child Exploitation and access to Child Exploitation Training on the CSCP website.
In line with Child Exploitation Awareness Day, join Cumbria Safeguarding Children Partnership on Tuesday 18 March 2025, for an insightful Trauma, Exploitation and Offending session with Sosa Henkoma, in partnership with Dignifi.
Julia, the Managing Director of Dignifi, will lead the session, sharing her own journey as the leader of a trauma company and a trauma survivor. She will share some awareness of exploitation and its traumatic impacts. Sosa will also share his lived experiences, as a criminally exploited child, explaining how he turned his life around to be a positive role model for his children, children at risk of being exploited and those currently experiencing exploitation.
Dignifi is an organisation who offer a range of services to develop trauma informed practice, including direct work with people who have experienced trauma and training and support for practitioners. Dignifi deliver a self-development programme that helps people who have experienced trauma to understand what has happened to them, they also offer advice and support to organisations of all sizes on how to develop more trauma informed and supportive environments for their staff to help them deliver such complex and emotionally draining work over the long-term.
Please find the session details below:
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Tuesday 18 March 2025 (10am – 12noon) - via teams
The session is open to anyone who is interested in finding out more about trauma, exploitation and offending. To find out more about this session please visit Trauma, Exploitation and Offending session - poster
To book your place on what is expected to be a fantastic session, please email: CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Also delivered in line with Child Exploitation Awareness Day, the CSCP are delivering a lunch and learn and a twilight session for professionals, on how to complete the 'child exploitation vulnerability checklist'.
The sessions will take place on the following date/times:
- Thursday 20 March 2025 (12.15pm - 1.30pm) - via teams
- Thursday 20 March 2025 (3.30pm - 4.45pm) - via teams
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
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