Child Exploitation Awareness Day 2025

Child Exploitation Awareness Day 2025

North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership are proud to support the National Working Group Child Exploitation Awareness Day (CEADay25) campaign on 18^th March 2025.

CHILD EXPLOITATION IS A FORM OF ABUSE THAT INVOLVES THE MANIPULATION AND/OR COERCION OF YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

 On 18th March 2025, we want to highlight the issues surrounding Child exploitation in Communities; for 2025, we are encouraging everyone to think, spot, and speak out against abuse and adopt a zero-tolerance approach to child exploitation.

Together, we can work to inform, educate, and prevent child abuse within the UK.

North Yorkshire Child Exploitation Summit 2025

18^th June 2025 – Harrogate Convention Centre

Following the successful multi-agency child Exploitation development events held across North Yorkshire in 2023 and 2024, North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership and North Yorkshire Community Safety Partnership are proud to announce the first North Yorkshire Child Exploitation Summit.

Focusing on all forms of child exploitation as detailed in the Multi Agency Child Exploitation (MACE) and Contextual Safeguarding Strategy, this FREE summit will be an opportunity for partners from across North Yorkshire to come together to look at how we can work together to tackle exploitation and serious youth violence. The day will focus on exploring local and national trends of child exploitation and serious youth violence, examining partnerships working together to disrupt the abuse that is happening to children and the role we all must play in this in the places and spaces young people are spending their time (including the online world).

With various enlightening and empowering keynote speakers and workshops throughout the day, the summit will prove to be an incredible occasion to come together as North Yorkshire Partners to tackle exploitation and serious youth violence.

Audience:  We welcome frontline practitioners to attend from across all agencies who work in North Yorkshire with young people (ages 8 and above) and their families.

There is an expectation that attendees will have a basic understanding of Child Exploitation and the Multi-Agency Child Exploitation processes in North Yorkshire, which can be accessed by reading the following practice guidance NYSCP.  A short “Introduction to Child Exploitation in North Yorkshire” will also be made available to attendees to watch before attending the summit.

Booking Details will be made available via the NYES website on 18^th March 2025.

How you can help.  

• By posting Child Exploitation Awareness Day content on your social media accounts (suggested content see below).
• Follow NYSCP (@NYSCP1) on X LinkedIn and Facebook, share Child Exploitation Awareness Day posts on your accounts and get messages out across your networks.
• Mobilise colleagues by sharing this briefing and asking them to join you in supporting the CEADay25 Campaign
• Write a personal pledge on your hands to show support for the National Working Group Helping Hands campaign and encourage people of North Yorkshire to Be Aware of child exploitation. Post your photo on social media with the hashtags #HelpingHands #BeAware and #CEADay25 to help us raise awareness of CSE and wider exploitation.

Social Media  

Below is a series of posts that can be shared on social media.

Further Information and Resources  

Further information about the National working group National Child Exploitation  Awareness day can be found at:  STOP CSE – National Child Exploitation Awareness Day (stop-cse.org) with further resources in the ‘Sway’ pack below.

National Child Exploitation Awareness Day 2025 #CEADay25

Go to this Sway

Be Aware is a knowledge hub designed to help prevent and tackle child exploitation in North Yorkshire. The site is designed with information designed specifically for professionals and volunteers, parents, carers, young people, communities and businesses to raise awareness and provide a one-stop shop of information about child exploitation by highlighting:

• What child exploitation is and what it can look like.
• Highlighting the different types of child exploitation – including County Lines and online exploitation.
• How to talk to children about what child exploitation is and things we can all do to help young people stay safe.
• What the signs are that child exploitation and grooming may be happening.
• What help and support are available in North Yorkshire if you are worried?

NYSCP

Child Exploitation Awareness Day 2024 Resources:

In 2024, to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of Child Exploitation Awareness Day, the North Yorkshire Safeguarding Partnership delivered a free programme of training and learning to raise awareness of exploitation in North Yorkshire and the services that are available to support them.

Course resources and recordings can be accessed here: NYSCP