Child Sexual Exploitation: A study of international comparisons

Date

2015

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Office for Public Management

Abstract

The issue of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) has been the focus of intense discussion, debate and intervention in the UK in recent years. At a summit in March 2015, the Prime Minister described CSE as a ‘national threat’, and announced that child sexual abuse will be given the same priority by the police as serious and organised crime. . A number of high profile cases of CSE have all received national attention, with a series of inquiries,reports and research into what went wrong in local and national systems, how the abuse could have been prevented, and how victims could be better supported in future. This report presents a rapid desk review of international comparisons of CSE, The review has focussed on the following countries: the European Union, the Council of Europe, Sweden, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. The work has been informed by awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and, more specifically, by the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.

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Keywords

exploitation, review, comparison

Citation

Cameron, G., Sayer, E. M., Thomson, L., & Wilson, S. (2015). Child Sexual Exploitation: A study of international comparisons. Office for Public Management.

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