Help for Professionals
The NWG
The NWG (formerly The National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People) is a Charitable organisation formed as a UK network of over 14 500 practitioners who disseminate our information down through their services, to professionals working on the issue of child sexual exploitation (CSE), wider exploitation and trafficking within the UK.
National Exploitation Response Unit
We have a multidisciplinary team of safeguarding leads employed to offer first response support and guidance to front line workers dealing with safeguarding and exploitation concerns at an operational level. Support is available via telephone, email or video conferencing at this time.
Casework – A key part of our work is supporting and guiding professionals to make the right decisions to escalate and respond to safeguarding concerns about children experiencing or at risk of exploitation. We provide guidance for professionals dealing with live cases of exploitation and abuse.
Local Area Reviews – helping local organisations and partnerships to improve their responses to child exploitation by undertaking independent reviews, identifying key recommendations, and assisting to develop action plans.
Training Events
This is an opportunity for practitioners to further their knowledge in different areas of Child Sexual Exploitation. Discount is offered to NWG Gold Members on all NWG training events and a certificate is awarded on completion. See training events below:
- Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation E-Learning Course
- Child Exploitation Advanced Course
- Understanding Trauma Foundation Course
- Working Alongside Families: Experts by Experience
- Transitions: 16 – 18 and Beyond
- Sexual Exploitation of Children with Learning Disabilities & Difficulties
- Combating Child Sexual Exploitation in Sport
- Disrupting Exploitation Webinar
Visit our Training Section for further details
Specialist Interest Forums
An opportunity for practitioners to discuss and debates issues relating to the sensitive nature of Child Exploitation, to network, share good practice, discuss challenges and seek solutions. Guest speakers share effective practice and new developments.
Open discussions take place in a secure and confidential environment.
Although our Police forum is a closed event and only open to those professionals from police our other special interest forums are open to all and include: Exploitation & Diversity, CSE Coordinators & Practitioners, Police and Policy
Further Information
Most forums run quarterly and are currently run online
Should you wish to book a place please visit
Members Surgery
The team offer monthly surgeries accessible by professionals seeking support and guidance to problem solve issues around exploitation, this could be case specific or strategic guidance. Appointments can be made for 1-2 hours and be either a 1:1/Microsoft Teams/Skype/Face time/Conference telephone consultation – this has proved extremely helpful to our network.
Should you wish to book a place please contact: [email protected]
Specialist Seminars
Specialist Seminars present an excellent learning opportunity enabling practitioners to hear specialists in the field of CSE/CSA and Human Trafficking in a small group setting, which is conducive to learning and discussion. Seminars are discounted for the Network members (those who subscribe or who are named on a membership)
Recent seminars have included:
Harmful Sexual Behaviour – Changing the way we see it. “Great speaker – very engaging knowledgeable and interesting” “Excellent presentation. Points to take away to develop support case studies”
Trauma in Context “This training was very informative & very beneficial” “Could have listened to presenter all day- really engaging”
Combatting CSE: A Residential Care Seminar “Excellent, engaging experience. Presentations were outstanding” “Fab presentation, well presented and interesting throughout”
Future Seminars:
As a network organisation, we are always happy to receive suggestions for future seminar subjects /speakers.
If you would like to deliver a seminar or have a suggestion, please contact Cheryl: [email protected]
Further Information:
Cost: reduced fee for network members. To book a place please visit: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/nwg-network-10661324498
Resources
Say Something if you See Something (SSSS) is the community awareness programme. A resource which includes sample letters, posters, leaflets, documents and training aimed at the hotel and licensed trade, taxi drivers, small licensed and unlicensed businesses and the sports arena. Two hotel chains and many Local Authorities/ forces have adopted the SSSS campaign. The campaign was updated in winter 2017 and is available FREE to download HERE
Say Something is a national service that seeks to raise awareness amongst young people of the risks and dangers of CSE and provide advice on how to keep safe and where to seek support. The service provides young people with a means of reporting CSE through a free, 24/7, anonymous helpline provided by Missing People. The service offers a complementary and unique additional service, through an anonymous reporting mechanism for young people alongside balancing support and safeguarding them. The helpline will signpost and/or refer young people to relevant local services. Missing People send disclosed information about child sexual exploitation to relevant statutory agencies and expect an appropriate local safeguarding response. The charity also helps the person reporting to be safe, and access support where needed. The helpline number is 116 000. A community campaign available from our young person website: http://faceup2it.org and resources to support your work from our online shop
Service Directory
The Service Directory lists projects, organisations and services contact details and a short description of the service provided all relating to and working in the field of CE across the UK. These can be search by region and are particularly useful when assisting colleagues and young people who are seeking support out of their own region/remit area. Please get in touch if you wish your organisation to be added to the directory free of charge.
Newsletters, Member Requests & Websites
We provide CSE/CE and Human trafficking news along with other relevant network news and information across our websites and e-newsletters.
Our websites list national events, training, conferences and forums, have relevant legislation links and a public and members only resource section along with news from across the network.
Our community facing website www.stop-cse.org is aimed at raising awareness of CSE, the site also supports the National CSE Awareness Raising Day (18th March every year) offering resources and support to the network and encouraging a take up on the day.
Newsletters are produced regularly and we encourage the network to contribute to them.
Sharing network requests across the network has proved very successful, if you have a challenge, an idea, a request for information, support or a resource we are able to anonymize the request and send it to our 14,500+ network, once we have a response we can send it back to you.
Download our Offer leaflet NWG Offer 2024
Resource Library
Network Members have access to an online member-only library which currently holds over 1,200 CE and Human Trafficking related resources including reports, research papers, policies and protocols, examples of effective practice, leaflets & posters and links to other useful resources. New resources are added regularly which can be seen by logging into your account. Members are encouraged to submit useful, relevant resources to be included in the library to assist their peers and to build the library further.
Click here to access the resources.