This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Education Safeguarding Professional, Jatinder Matharu, for the attention of All Schools.
#LookCloser is a partnership campaign between The Children's Society, the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre and the British Transport Police aiming to raise awareness of child exploitation and abuse and to encourage the public and businesses to better identify and report concerns. The campaign also seeks to challenge assumptions and victim stereotypes, highlighting that child exploitation can happen anywhere, and any young person can be a victim.
The latest week of action will focus in particular on the role that everyone can play in disrupting child exploitation and the importance of ensuring that young victims are effectively identified, safeguarded and supported as they transition to adulthood.
Attached to this e-mail are invitations to join and share our latest Programme of Learning for professional partners. There you will find Eventbrite links to each session and we encourage you book onto these soon, as they can fill up quickly.
Also attached is the Programme of Learning for police partners, which you are welcome to share with your law enforcement colleagues and networks.
We will be in touch closer to the week of action with further materials and information but for now you can find all our current campaign materials on our #Look Closer website. To access these you simply need to scroll to the bottom of the page and provide your Job Title, Organisation and Region. Once completed you will be provided with a link to access and download everything.
Please direct any questions to Prevention@childrenssociety.org.uk