A right to be protected: Article 19 UNCRC Sue Berelowitz Deputy Childrens Commissioner/Chief Executive

Definition: sexual exploitation (DfE 2009) Exploitative situations, contexts and relationships where young people receive something as a result of them performing and/or others performing on them, sexual activities Use of technology In all cases, those exploiting the child/young person have power over them Violence, coercion and intimidation are common

Definition: Group associated Sexual exploitation carried out by multiple perpetrators who are connected through formal or informal associations or networks between themselves or between victims Can involve individual, repeat or multiple victims Group refers specifically to the numbers of perpetrators involved in the violence and abuse

Definition: gang (John Pitts, 2008 plus CSJ, 2009) A relatively durable, predominantly street- based, social group of children, young people, and, not infrequently, adults, who see themselves, and are seen by others, as affiliates of a discrete, named group who engage in criminal activity and violence, identify or lay claim to territory, have identifying structure, are in conflict with other groups

Definition: gang associated Sexual exploitation that involves one or multiple perpetrators who are themselves gang associated and where the cse takes place as a form of intra or inter-gang related violence Gang associated refers specifically to the motive of the violence and/or gang association of the perpetrator and/or victim, rather than the number of perpetrators involved