Coventry Bespoke Support Project

Locally, Coventry’s child sexual exploitation strategic subgroup has recently expanded to focus on child exploitation and extra-familial harm. There were reflections from the strategic group and the Chief Executive’s that they cannot assume that what works to tackle and disrupt child sexual exploitation will automatically transfer to wider forms of child exploitation, but the partnership did not want to lose sight of what they believe has worked well previously.

The partnership applied to the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) programme for a bespoke support project as they wished to explore and conceptualise the definitions of child exploitation (CE), child criminal exploitation (CCE) and child sexual exploitation (CSE). This would then aim to underpin the principles of developing a data set to expand their current understanding of the local profile beyond child sexual exploitation to child exploitation.