Exploitation
Click and play: Criminal exploitation including child sexual exploitation
Session time: Approximately 5 minutes
Audience: KS3, KS4 and post-16 pupils
Aim: To educate young people around the subject of child exploitation to safeguard and protect them and to prevent young people entering the criminal justice system.
This session covers:
- Explanation on types of exploitation, including within a relationship and County Lines
- How to spot the signs
- Where to go to for support
Download Click and play: Criminal exploitation including child sexual exploitation
External resources
Resources for KS3, KS4 and KS5
Exploited is an 18-minute film which explores issues of emotional and sexual abuse within teenage relationships. The film helps young people to recognise the signs that their relationship may be putting them at risk.
There is an accompanying pack of resources containing activities and lesson plans.
"Just send it" is a film and accompany lesson that explores the issue of sexting.
The toolkit activities help students understand the pressures on young people to take and share sexts and the consequences of doing so.
There is also clear advice on the law in relation to sexting and support in dealing with the pressure to send a sext.
Kayleigh’s Love Story is an online grooming case from October 2015 that ended tragically. This video re-enacts the last two weeks of 15-year old Kayleigh Haywood’s life when she was groomed on Facebook by a 27-year old male and then went to visit the man. Kayleigh was raped and murdered by the man and his next door neighbour. Both men were subsequently convicted of serious offences and received substantial prison sentences.
The video has been made with the support of Kayleigh’s family and would be rated 15 if it were to be shown in the cinema.
Online blackmail is a new education resource which aims to help young people identify key characteristics of how blackmail manifests online, understand the impact it can have, and how they access help if they experience it.
The term ‘online blackmail’ is used to refer to the act of threatening to share information about an individual (including sexual images or videos) to the public, or their friends and family, unless a demand is met. Anyone can be targeted by online blackmailers, but as young people begin to become more financially independent, this can be a point of vulnerability which offenders seek to exploit.
Running the Lines is an educational resource for professionals working with young people throughout the UK. It was created by Fearless, part of Crimestoppers. The resource explores the threat, risk and harm of County Lines involvement.