Nottingham hosts child sexual exploitation event, ITV (March 21, 2017)

Nottingham hosts child sexual exploitation event

ITV
March 21, 2017

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Nottingham is set to host the country's biggest ever event to tackle child sexual exploitation today. Credit: ITV News.

Nottingham is set to host the country's biggest ever event to tackle child sexual exploitation today.

The current head of the national Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Professor Alexis Jay will address social services, the police and community groups at the two-day conference hosted by East Midlands based charity NWG.

It comes after the group were backed with over £1.24million of Government money enabling them to double their staff and launch the national child sexual exploitation response unit to support those who come across child sexual exploitation.

The charity's chief executive, Sheila Taylor MBE, who was a key participant in a Downing Street child sexual exploitation summit and has previously helped Derbyshire police track down and convict two gangs of paedophiles, said:

"It's great to see so many people coming together to help tackle this horrendous crime but of course we'd like so many more to join with us and access support. In order to end the suffering of children we all have a part to play - we need to encourage people to speak out and we want to bring these issues out into the open. We want the world to unite against child sexual exploitation and we aim to highlight the issues surrounding CSE; encouraging everyone to think, spot and speak out against abuse and adopt a zero tolerance to adults developing inappropriate relationships with children."

– Sheila Taylor MBE.

NWG has identified a particular need for more support to ensure that parents are involved in tackling exploitation at a local level, and for better support to professionals in education and community development.