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Off Street Prostitution

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Off Street Prostitution

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    1. Off Street Prostitution The ‘Hidden Issue’

    2. What Next- Behind Closed Doors

    3. Priorities for the Make A Change Team The safety and welfare of all sex workers Identification of Risk premises The identification of victims of trafficking The identification of child victims of prostitution Referrals to partner organisations and expert assistance. Identification of offenders/traffickers Providing routes out/support/health and safety advice.

    4. Triggers for Identification of Child Victims Missing from home Absent from school Adult boyfriends Petty crime Regularly visiting different locations Sexual promiscuity Drugs/alcohol abuse

    5. Locations Where Services Are Offered Ipswich Bury St Edmunds Lowestoft Felixstowe- Brandon Mildenhall- Eye Newmarket- Sudbury Haverhill Stowmarket Beccles Woodbridge Trimley Lakenheath Redlodge Hadleigh Bartlow Witnesham Willisham

    6. Premises Visited

    7. Human Trafficking a crime that demeans the value of human life and is a form of modern day slavery

    8. It isn’t happening here !!! Since July 2008 – 18 located – 12 in Ipswich, 3 in Newmarket, 1 in Witnesham and 1 in Lowestoft 11 raids- 22 arrested involving illegal immigration, human trafficking money laundering and keeping a brothel. Most of these victims have children at home or staying with relatives 6 running at the present 3 Chinese referred to UKHTC

    9. Child Victims 1 15yrs old missing from Eye recovered from brothel premises in Ipswich 5yrs old child of offender missing- located with father in South Wales 14yrs old female coerced by 24yr old woman into selling sex to old men Looked after child taken to Portsmouth by older man and forced to have sex with friends of male

    10. Concentrating on children at risk Child prostitution, involving a 14yrs old female coerced into prostitution Jointly with Social Service into a group of 10-14 teenage girls being coerced by much older men 60 children identified by MAC team members as being at risk of sexual exploitation The research and introduction of new protocols and practices to promote ‘Every Child Matters’

    11. The Message It can happen anywhere Sexual exploitation is everywhere in the county There are children that need our help to prevent them entering the dark and dangerous world of sexual exploitation. Remember the Make A Change Team are multi agency experts in dealing all aspects of sexual exploitation and can provide support and advice

    12. Alan Caton; 01473 383102 alan.caton@suffolk.pnn.police.uk Make A Change Team ; 01473 282352, Helen Hepburn; 01473 260775 helen.hepburn@socserv.suffolkcc.gov.uk Police Liaison Team; 01473 383157 Mobile:- 07936944787 ANY QUESTIONS? Contacts

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