Partners in Care? Sexually Exploited Young People’s Inclusion and Exclusion from Decision Making about Safeguarding

Warrington, Camille

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“…Drawing upon interviews with adult sex workers who had been sexually exploited prior to age 18, Dodsworth (2014) suggests that interventions should acknowledge the agency and expertise of CSE victims, support their exploration of alternatives to and pathways out of CSE and should be built upon models of good practice in similar fields of social care. This is supported by the work of Warrington (2010Warrington ( , 2013 who argues that the views of children and young people should be incorporated into any safeguarding intervention, at the level of both policy and practice between individuals.…”

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Mitigating Harm: Considering Harm Reduction Principles in Work with Sexually Exploited Young People

Hickle

Hallett

2015

Children & Society

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A growing awareness of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the United Kingdom and throughout the world has prompted human service and legal/policy professionals to seek ways of engaging young people experiencing sexual exploitation, although much remains unknown regarding effective practice, and whether or not current knowledge regarding best practices with young people can be expanded to address CSE. This paper considers how principles of harm reduction, a public health approach widely used to engage adults and young people in help-seeking behaviours, can be considered as part of a children's rightscentred approach to policy and practice with young people experiencing CSE.

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Mitigating Harm: Considering Harm Reduction Principles in Work with Sexually Exploited Young People

Hickle

Hallett

2015

Children & Society

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“…All too often, in an understandable bid to counter victim blaming, simplistic counter-narratives are offered which negate any suggestion of children's agency or resources (Warrington, 2010(Warrington, , 2013b. This can be seen projected in the language and imagery of third-sector awareness raising including pictures of children as 'puppets' and calls for professionals to 'cut them free' (Barnardo's, 2011b).…”

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Sexual Exploitation and Its Impact on Developing Sexualities and Sexual Relationships: The Need for Contextual Social Work Interventions

2016

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This article considers how young people's developing sexualities are influenced by extra-familial social and cultural contexts, particularly in relation to experiences of sexual violence. It draws upon young people's voices to illustrate the choices they make when they encounter, or engage with, exploitative contexts. Utilising the cumulative evidence base of our studies into sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence over the past ten years, we employ Bourdieu's theory of the interplay between structure and agency to elucidate the relationship between young people's choices and abusive social environments. When navigating or engaging with exploitative contexts, young people's sexualities can be distorted through abusive normalising processes; coercive practices; professional attitudes which condone abuse; and/or structural inequalities that call for survivalist behaviours amongst young people. In exploring this social model of consent, we highlight the need to move beyond one to one (1:1) social work practices to engage with situations, contexts and relationships that disrupt young people's developing sexualities. Such an adaptation of social work practice would adopt principles of 'contextual safeguarding' and we conclude by offering illustrations of interventions that have begun to explore this developmental pathway.

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“…A second group of studies has explored the experiences of young people. Some have conducted participatory research with young people at risk of or who have experienced CSE (Firmin ; Warrington ; Dodsworth ). Others have addressed specific groups of young people who might be at increased risk of CSE or may otherwise have been overlooked (Gohir ; Cockbain et al ).…”

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“…Bovarnick () found that professionals who take a ‘child‐centred’ approach viewed trafficked young people as in need of protection, whereas those adopting an ‘immigration‐centred’ approach were more likely to view them as ‘abusing the system’. Warrington () has highlighted that participatory work with young people experiencing CSE can pose particular challenges for organizations responsible for safeguarding children as involving young people who have been groomed can require practitioners to hear narratives that might sit ‘uneasily’ with them.…”

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“…Bovarnick (2010) found that professionals who take a 'child-centred' approach viewed trafficked young people as in need of protection, whereas those adopting an 'immigration-centred' approach were more likely to view them as 'abusing the system'. Warrington (2013) has highlighted that participatory work with young people experiencing CSE can pose particular challenges for organizations responsible for safeguarding children as involving young people who have been groomed can require practitioners to hear narratives that might sit 'uneasily' with them. Nicholls et al (2014) explored professional perceptions of causative factors underlying the CSE experiences of young men; however, they focused on how CSE operates with young men, positing professionals as experts rather than analysing their discourse.…”

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Practitioners' perceptions and decision‐making regarding child sexual exploitation – a qualitative vignette study

Reisel

2016

Child & Family Social Work

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There has been intense controversy about the appropriate response to child sexual exploitation, with debates in the UK particularly hinging on the meaning of consent and coercion. For professionals with a duty to safeguard young people from child sexual exploitation, a key site of tension is how to avoid limiting young people's experience of agency without placing them at risk. Drawing on new qualitative research findings from a vignette study designed to trace professional perception and decision‐making, this paper argues that practitioners' perceptions regarding what counts as consent are refracted through conceptions of age and choice. However, many initial perceptions of agency and its links to age were modified through the interview process. This has implications for how supervision should operate. These topics raise issues of the need for practitioners to have nuanced conceptions of consent in the context of manipulation.

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Partners in Care? Sexually Exploited Young People’s Inclusion and Exclusion from Decision Making about Safeguarding

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Mitigating Harm: Considering Harm Reduction Principles in Work with Sexually Exploited Young People

Mitigating Harm: Considering Harm Reduction Principles in Work with Sexually Exploited Young People

Sexual Exploitation and Its Impact on Developing Sexualities and Sexual Relationships: The Need for Contextual Social Work Interventions

Practitioners' perceptions and decision‐making regarding child sexual exploitation – a qualitative vignette study

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