National Child Exploitation Awareness Day

The National Child Exploitation Awareness Day aims to highlight the issues surrounding CE; encouraging everyone to think, spot and speak out against abuse and adopt a zero tolerance to adults developing inappropriate relationships with children, or children exploiting and abusing their peers.

The National Child Exploitation Awareness Day aims to highlight the issues surrounding Child Exploitation; for 2023 the NWG are focusing on Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and encouraging everyone to think, spot and speak out against abuse and adopt a zero tolerance to adults developing inappropriate relationships with children or children exploiting and abusing their peers.

What is Child Exploitation?

Child Exploitation, or CE is a term which encompasses all the ways by which children and young people can be exploited. It includes Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and also criminal exploitation. The criminal exploitation of children is an issue which is gaining more of a national focus and is closely related to County Lines, and other ways children and young people are drawn into drugs related criminal activity.

STOP CE – STOP CSE I Raise Awareness of CSE – Join the fight against CSE (stop-cse.org)

More information

Click here for a useful briefing from the National Working Group (NWG).

Please visit the National Working Group’s official awareness day website, and the Children’s Society Look Closer campaign webpage.