Mapping Sexually Exploited

Young People in Dundee

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I. Why this research?

II. What’s the research?

III. How’ll it be done?

IV. Challenges

V. Impact

It all started with …

Backgrounds of this research topic

Suspected sexual exploitation in looked-after units in early 2000s

Failed inspection/Council’s new priority/Barnardo’s proactive work in early 2000s

Leadership changes in 2007/8

Priority changes in Child Protection after a child death/failed inspection

Little preparation for ‘new’ technologies

Changes of Child Protection Policy towards evidence-based policy

Insufficient Data collection

What’s the research?

How’s it done?

Quantitative methods

The multiple indicator methods

to estimate the level of a hidden problem such as sexual exploitation, using data from a set of proxy indicators for sexual exploitation in Dundee

Quantitative methods

numbers of looked-after children

numbers of looked-after children in residential homes

numbers of young people going missing

levels of STIs and teenage pregnancies

levels of drug use in the community

levels of youth homelessness

absences or exclusions from school

prostitution

numbers of children/young people crimes

anti-social behaviours

gang related activities

Difficulties

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Policies

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