What we do
Tees Valley exploitation service support children who have been abused or vulnerable to abuse through child exploitation.
Our specialist service work directly with children, as well as provide advice and guidance to parents, carers and work in partnership with other services.
We seek to develop intelligence about exploitation, including new areas of activity, informing, influencing and campaigning on these issues locally, regionally and nationally. We focus on the safeguarding needs of vulnerable/ abused children by providing a trauma informed, child directed, system focused and strength-based approach.
We can help with
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is a form of child sexual abuse. When children and young people experience sexual abuse we help them recover and rebuild their lives. We also support their family through counselling and create and deliver preventive and awareness-raising programmes.
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- Trafficking is the movement of a person from one place to another for the purpose of exploitation: using them for somebody else’s gain. We help children and young people who have experienced this cope with the practical and emotional traumas of being trafficked. Our specialist support workers help them to understand what is happening in ways that they can understand and advocates for them with social care services, the police and immigration.
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