Child sexual abuse and exploitation | The Children's Society
Each year, thousands of young people are sexually abused in the UK. They often keep it a secret. Many don't understand what is happening. Together, we can stop child sexual abuse and exploitation. By understanding how it happens, knowing how to spot the signs and learning how to report it, we can ...
Effects Of Child Poverty | The Children's Society
There are millions of children in poverty. Many come through it and achieve great things. However, it's not easy. Sleeping in a cold bedroom, studying on an empty stomach, missing out on trips with mates. Young people from poor backgrounds have to fight harder for their future. Children from poorer ...
#LookCloser To Spot Exploitation | The Children's Society
When someone builds a relationship with a child to manipulate them, this is known as grooming. It happens online and offline. The child may then be sexually abused, forced into labour, made to launder criminal money, or coerced into transporting drugs or stealing from shops. These are types of child exploitation.
Child Protection & Safeguarding | The Children's Society
Abuse of a child or young person under the age of 18 is defined as follows. Abuse is a deliberate act of ill-treatment that can harm or is likely to harm a child or young person’s safety, well-being and development. Abuse can be physical, sexual or emotional. Neglect of …
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Preventing child sexual exploitation - The Children's Society
CSE stands for child sexual exploitation and is a type of abuse. It’s when children are tricked into performing sexual acts. It can happen to both boys and girls. At the start, the young person may think they’re in a loving consensual relationship, because they get gifts, money, status, affection.
What is county lines? - The Children's Society
County lines is a form of criminal exploitation. It is when criminals befriend children, either online of offline, and then manipulate them into drug dealing. The 'lines' refer to mobile phones that are used to control a young person who is delivering drugs, often to towns outside their home county ...
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The Good Childhood Report 2023 | The Children's Society
We use responses from the Understanding Society survey to look at how children’s wellbeing is changing over time. In 2020-21, children’s (aged 10 to 15) mean scores for happiness with their life as a whole, their friends, appearance, school, and schoolwork were all significantly lower than when the survey began in 2009-10. Family was the only aspect of life where there had been no ...
Children's Mental Health Statistics - The Children's Society
In the last three years, the likelihood of young people having a mental health problem has increased by 50%. Our Good Childhood Report 2022 shows that children's happiness continues to decline. Now, five children in a classroom of 30 are likely to have a mental health problem.