[senco-forum] Please circulate amongst your mailing list

I recvd this from a colleague via Sheffield Safeguarding board re Natl.
pertition.

Please see e-mail below and forward to colleagues if appropriate. 

Hi,

Increasing number of children and young people in the UK are groomed for
sexual exploitation by pimps and traffickers. Once groomed they are given
drugs, raped, prostituted, battered and subjected to horrific violence and
abuse. The process of sexual exploitation involves many different elements
of crime which comes to the attention of agencies under different headings,
such as children who are missing from home, truanting school, using drugs,
prostituted, abducted, raped or murdered. Lack of recognition of this
complex hidden process as one crime, prevents understanding the true scale
of the problem across the UK. A way of tackling this problem would be to
have specific statutory targets for the police and local safeguarding
children boards to ensure the implementation of guidance on safeguarding
sexually exploited children. 

This online petition http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PTONE/petition.html
<http://www.petitiononline.com/PTONE/petition.html>  calls upon the UK
Government to take necessary action, both nationally and in each local
authority, to ensure: 

- the practical IMPLEMENTATION of relevant guidance and legislation 
- its MONITORING 

- publicly available REPORTS on progress 

We urge everyone who believes in the need to protect children and the
country's future to sign up to this Petition. Its never too late to make a
difference. 

PRESS 'Ctrl' OR the 'control button' and CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO SIGN THE
PETITION

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PTONE/petition.html
<http://www.petitiononline.com/PTONE/petition.html> 

Please circulate widely and help us get more support. Apologies for cross
posting.

Thank you. 

Aravinda Kosaraju

Policy, Research & Development Worker

CROP

Registered Office

34 York Road

Leeds

LS9 8TA

Tel: 0113 240 3040

Email  <mailto:aravinda at cropuk.org.uk> aravinda at cropuk.org.uk

Company Limited by Guarantee 4249272

Registered Charity 1092560

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The Coalition for the Removal of Pimping (CROP) is a national charity
working to end the sexual exploitation of children and young people by pimps
and traffickers. CROP supports parents so that they become active agents
along with agencies working to safeguard children and young people subjected
to sexual grooming and exploitation. CROP offers a national telephone
helpline; provides one to one support; organises network days for parents;
undertakes research and disseminates information; participates in government
consultations and reviews; facilitates public awareness through conferences
and mass media programs; and undertakes training for agencies highlighting
the need for multi-agency working with families as equal partners.

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The information in this email is 
intended for the addressee(s) only. 
If you are not the addressee, please 
tell us by using the reply facility 
in your email software as soon as 
possible. 
Sheffield City Council cannot accept 
any responsibility for the accuracy
or completeness of this message as it 
has been transmitted over a public 
network. If you suspect that the 
message may have been intercepted or 
amended please tell us as soon as 
possible.
Sheffield City Council may monitor all email passing through its networks.