What we do
Tees Valley exploitation service support children who have been abused or vulnerable to abuse through child exploitation.
Our specialist service work directly with children, as well as provide advice and guidance to parents, carers and work in partnership with other services.
We seek to develop intelligence about exploitation, including new areas of activity, informing, influencing and campaigning on these issues locally, regionally and nationally. We focus on the safeguarding needs of vulnerable/ abused children by providing a trauma informed, child directed, system focused and strength-based approach.
We can help with
- Supporting children and young people to recover from sexual abuse, as well as family counselling, preventive and awareness-raising programmes.
- Find out more about Child sexual exploitation (CSE)
- Search for Child sexual exploitation (CSE) services
- We help these young victims cope with the practical and emotional traumas of being trafficked. Our specialist support workers help them to understand what is happening with social care services, the police and immigration – in ways that they can understand. We run specialist Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Service (ICTGS) services in Wales/Cymru, East Midlands, West Midlands Combined Authorities, Croydon, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and Greater Manchester
- Find out more about Trafficking
- Search for Trafficking services