Missing, Slavery, Exploited & Trafficked (MSET)

Local Information:

• Trafficking and NRM Quick Guide
• One Minute Guide to Disruption- TfC have created this guide to help partners find disruption techniques that work for them.
• Missing Protocol
• MSET Framework
• Missing From Home process flowchart

Child Sexual Exploitation:

• Keep Them Safe  - Protecting Children from Sexual Exploitation

Child Criminal Exploitation:

• Criminal Exploitation Briefing

County Lines, Missing and Trafficking:

• Home Office County Lines Pack
• SafeCall - supporting children and young people affected by county lines and missing
• County Lines video by National County Lines Coordination Centre
• Child trafficking - Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) has published a briefing looking at immigration outcomes for children who have been trafficked into the UK.  Nationality and Borders Bill: immigration outcomes for child victims of trafficking 
• The Home Office has published an overview of the county lines programme which has been tackling child criminal exploitation. The programme so far has closed more than 1,500 lines, safeguarded more than 4,000 vulnerable people and engaged more than 4,000 individuals through safeguarding interventions. 
  County lines programme overview
• Modern Slavery: National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify statistics UK, Quarter 2 2022 – April to June
• The Observer has published an article on reports from headteachers about the potential link between the cost-of-living crisis and increasing numbers of children and young people being recruited into county lines gangs: To read the article go here.

Contextual Safeguarding and Harm outside the Home:

• The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in England has published a blog discussing harms outside the home, which is one of the areas under consideration by the review. The blog focusses on the criminal exploitation of children and young people in and on the edge of care
  Children in care are being pulled in to do the dirty work on county lines
• The Contextual Safeguarding Network is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families.
• Professor Carlen Firmin Seminar 'Green lights, speed bumps and cul-de-sacs: the road to contextual safeguarding. You can now view the recording via the following link: https://youtu.be/wWvKXSEI4Sg
• The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel - It was hard to escape - report (publishing.service.gov.uk)
• Scale-Up Toolkit | Contextual Safeguarding

Tools for Professionals:

• Child exploitation appropriate language guide 2022
• #lookcloser prevention
• Tackling Child Exploitation
• Impactful video created by Surrey Police to raise awareness of exploitation, click here to view this. 
• Look Closer 2023 Programme of Learning 2023