Support For Children & Teens In Safegaurding

(Against Child Sexual Exploitation, Child Abuse & Child Criminal Exploitation)

The Safety Box offers members of the public and local authorities support for children in equipping them with practical skills they can use to stay safe on the streets, safe within the home and when at school.

Within this 6 week online course which carries a AQA professional certificate, young people will learn some of the safety principles essential to staying safe against gangs, knife crime, robbery and potential sexual exploitation. The program which is held 1 hour per week over 6 weeks online and with a safety workbook focusses on:

• Confidence building

• Planning a new routes

• How to stay safe to and from school / college

• What not to do when you get to secondary school

• Emergency money, mobile phones and other valuables

• Overcoming fear and anxiety about other youth & knife crime

• Creating an awareness of new surroundings

• Safety on public transport

• Walking home in the winter

• The way to overcome fear and anxiety

• Getting to know your new classmates & the family

• Thinking about bullies and how to handle them

• Personal protection and safety awareness

• Safety Online (Snap Chat, Instagram, Social Media, Gaming Sites)

• Avoiding Gangs and how to avoid grooming

• Where, When & How to report

Support For Parents with youth at risk of

(Child Sexual Exploitation, Child Abuse & Child Criminal Exploitation Safeguarding)

At a time where more and more young people are being abused at home by seperated parents and carers, groomed either into child criminal exploitation or sexual exploitation it is important for parents or guardians to identify the signs and the steps of how to safeguard them. The young people in your care may have serious mental health conditions which may lead to negative behaviour tendencies, you may find something in their rooms or you may know that they are involved with gangs and criminal exploitation, or they may show depression or anxiety because of an abuse situation this is where we can assist.

It is important that parents and guardians get the guidance as the young people may become the victims of violence or maybe pressured into doing things that lead to violence, for example street robberies, theft, trafficking drugs or holding weapons. There may also be physical, sexual and/ or psycho-emotional abuse coupled with bullying and threats.

This is where the family may require our help.

The Safety Box runs a 4 week program (1 hour a week) for parents and guardians on advice about what to do if a child is being groomed to join, or if a child has already joined a gang and also ways they can safeguard their children against Child Criminal Exploitation or Child Sexual Exploitation.

The program covers some of the following areas:

• Identifying the signs

• The Dangers of Social Media & YouTube Music

• Gaming / Social Chat Forums

• Understanding the terminology

• Strategies to get out

• How to support as a parent / guardian

• Monitoring

• Understanding how to report and when to in order to safeguard.