National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People (NWG)Patron - Bea CampbellThe National Working Group has developed as a support group for individuals and service providers working with children and young people who are at risk of or who experience sexual exploitation.
Its membership covers voluntary and statutory services including health, education and social services.
Although it has a number of aims as listed below, the principal objective is to offer support and advice to those working with children and young people under eighteen who are affected by sexual exploitation.
The national working group organises regular meetings and training events for its members. The management group oversees the work of the group to ensure that initiatives respond to issues as they emerge from members' direct contact with young people.
As such, the national working group plays a role in developing policy and practice in the field informed by practice. Aims- To provide a forum for projects or organisations concerned with the sexual exploitation of young people
- To provide links into current research, policy and project developments within the field and offer opportunity for examples of good, bad and developing practice to be shared and discussed.
- To encourage co-ordination of different approaches and aim to contribute to the development of UK wide policy and practice
- To encourage child centred practice that recognises and respects diversity.
- To develop an appropriate support network for services working with young people at risk of, or experiencing sexual exploitation.
- To enable the group to be heard as a collective group of projects and organisations working in the field of sexual exploitation.
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