Safeguarding, Exploitation and Preventing Harm
This section contains toolkits, resources and ways of working that youth justice services and partners can use to support working with children that are at risk of harm from self, from others and to others. If you would like to submit a method of working with children that is working well for your service to the Youth Justice Resource Hub, please complete the submission form.
County Lines – National Crime Agency (updated 2023)
Published: 18/01/2023
Summary Access to information and reports published by the National Crime Agency in regards to county lines. Description The National Crime Agency have a specific area concerned with county lines which includes a variety of information including definitions and reports that may be of interest, including; County Lines: Drug supply, vulnerability and harm 2018 –…
Working with Children in a Trauma Informed Way – Trauma Informed Practice Pathfinder – Cwm Taf youth justice service (Updated September 2022)
Summary: The trauma informed pathfinder have shared a workshop and associated materials looking at how youth justice practitioners can complete assessments in a trauma informed way. Summary: The trauma informed pathfinder have shared a workshop and associated materials looking at how youth justice practitioners can complete assessments in a trauma informed way. Description: As part…
Criminal Exploitation Safety Planning Tool – County Lines Pathfinder (November 2022)
Summary: County lines pathfinder have produced a criminal exploitation safety planning tool, aimed at managers to use in collaboration with case holders.
Debt Bondage in a Criminal Exploitation and County Lines context: Support Resource for Professionals – National County Lines Coordination Centre and The Children Society (August 2022)
Published: 01/11/2022
Summary: National County Lines Coordination Centre and The Children Society have published a resource for professionals regarding debt bondage within the criminal exploitation and county lines context. Description: National County Lines Coordination Centre and The Children Society have published Debt Bondage in a Criminal Exploitation and County Lines Context: Support Resource for Professionals. The aim of…
Building on Friendships to Create Safety Podcast: Intervention for Children at Risk of Exploitation and Their Peers to Build Safety – Trauma Informed Pathfinder (March 2022)
Published: 15/07/2022
Summary The link to a podcast for the Contextualised Safeguarding Network concerning their group work intervention with children at risk of exploitation and their friendship group to build safety. Description The Trauma Informed Pathfinder led by the East Sussex youth offending team has participated in a podcast on building friendships to create safety (March 2022)…
Introduction to Exploitation for Front Line Workers Training – Serious Youth Violence Pathfinder (March 2022)
Summary: Access to the training created by the Serious Youth Violence Pathfinder concerned with exploitation of children and vulnerable adults.
County Lines Pathfinder Overview and Emerging Youth Justice Practice in Preventing, Identifying and Disrupting County Lines Exploitation – County Lines Pathfinder (Updated March 2023)
Published: 21/06/2022
Summary An overview of the work produced by the County Lines Pathfinder. Description County Lines Pathfinder concluded in April 2022, it comprised 25 programme streams that looked to support children, families and practitioners to support children who are at risk or being exploited through county lines. Below are all the knowledge and information shared…
Professional Perspectives: School Exclusion, Disproportionality and Criminal Exploitation Report – County Lines Pathfinder and Listen Up (January 2022)
Published: 20/06/2022
Summary County Lines Pathfinder commissioned Listen Up to produce a report that looks at professional perspectives in relation to school exclusions, disproportionality, and criminal exploitation. Description The Suffolk County Lines Pathfinder commissioned Listen Up, who have produced ‘Professional Perspectives: School Exclusions, Disproportionality and Criminal Exploitation’ (January 2022). The aim of the report was to explore…
Child Exploitation Risk Assessment and Management Tool – Cambridgeshire County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 17/06/2022
Summary: Cambridgeshire County Council have shared their child exploitation risk assessment and management tool as well as a short review of the tool.
Group Work Programme for Young People at Emerging Risk of Exploitation, Youth Violence and Antisocial Behaviour: Transforming Lives – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 25/05/2022
Summary Cambridgeshire County Council- have shared the group work programme for children at emerging risk of exploitation, youth violence and anti-social behaviour. Description In 2016, Cambridgeshire County Council- Early Help service received funding from Huntingdonshire Community Safety Partnership to develop and deliver Transforming Lives project in Huntingdon North ward area. The project was targeted at young…
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