The West Midlands metropolitan region will once again be supporting National CSE Awareness Day on March 18th 2017 – it is a call for all to unite against child sexual exploitation.
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is a form of sexual abuse that involves the manipulation and/or coercion of young people under the age of 18 into sexual activity. Any child can be sexually exploited no matter what culture, ethnicity, religion, whether a boy or a girl from any background.
Everyone has a role to play in raising awareness of child sexual exploitation.
National CSE Awareness Day aims to highlight the issues surrounding child sexual exploitation; encouraging everyone to think, spot and speak out against abuse and adopt zero tolerance to adults developing inappropriate relationships with children and children forming inappropriate sexual relationships with their peers
Throughout the week leading up to the day, West Midlands ‘See Me Hear Me’ CSE campaign will be sharing images of ‘hand pledges’ from across the region on social media, with as many as possible due to be displayed on the website for the day itself.
Please send your hand pledges for what you will do to help tackle CSE to rhopper@solihull.gov.uk or share on social media…your pledge can be work-related or something as simple as talking to your child about CSE or challenging victim blaming language when you hear it. If you share your own via social media please use #CSEDay17 #helpinghands #seemehearme.
Don’t wait until March – send them in as soon as you can so that they are ready to be part of the campaign.