Sexual Exploitation Steering Group

The Sexual Exploitation Steering Group was set up in October 2010 after Sussex Central YMCA secured joint funding to set up a specialist service for young people aged 13 - 25 in Brighton & Hove as a result of the ‘tipping the iceberg’ research’ undertaken by Barnardo’s in 2007. Click here to download / view the Tipping the Iceberg report (2007)

This is a city-wide multi-agency group which seeks to engage all relevant agencies and enables and promotes the delivery of an enhanced service to children and young people at risk of or experiencing sexual exploitation across Brighton & Hove.

Membership is from a range of statutory and voluntary sector organisations across the city including Sussex Central YMCA, Terence Higgins Trust, the police, Brighton & Hove City Council, LSCB and Health and is chaired by the Head of Safeguarding. The group supports the ‘What is Sexual Exploitation?’ (WiSE) project led by the Vulnerable Young Person's (Sexual Exploitation) Development Worker.

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