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Make sure you know who the child protection/safeguarding lead in your agency is and be aware of the procedure to follow if you have concerns about a young person. If you are worried or in any doubt, get help from your local specialist exploitation team.
Information sharing and awareness raising is key to tackling child sexual exploitation. Please do all you can to promote CSE awareness on your website and social media channels.
When a young person is being sexually exploited they may exhibit a range of types of behaviour or warning signs that might indicate that they're a victim or at risk of child sexual exploitation. If you know a young person who is showing some of these signs and you're worried about them, please report it now. You can also see our spot the signs page for young people.
Physical symptoms (bruising suggestive of either physical or sexual assault)
Evidence of drug, alcohol or substance misuse
Volatile behaviour / mood swings / use of abusive language
Truancy/disengagement with education or change in performance at school
Wiltshire healthy schools is provided by Wiltshire Council's Children's Services to help schools effectively address the health and wellbeing of children and young people. All schools have an important role to play in addressing CSE through their programmes of PSHE education. Wiltshire schools can use the Wiltshire Healthy Schools CSE teaching resources to supplement their existing programmes.
