Workshop 1 - Ros Cuddihy North Wales Police

8/13/2019 Workshop 1 - Ros Cuddihy North Wales Police

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Missing Children& Multi-Agency Working

Steve Challinor – Missing Person Coordinator

Mark Owen – Missing Person Coordinator

Ros Cuddihy – Detective Sergeant – Strategic Public Protection



• Workshop Objectives

• To provide an overview of the problem with Missing

Children in North Wales

• To explore the link between going missing and CSE

• To introduce the role of the Missing Person

Coordinators

• To consider the extent of the CSE problem in NorthWales

• To discuss Multi Agency Working



• The Extent of the Problem• Total Missing Reports per year in North Wales?

• 1st Nov 2012 to 31st Oct 2013 = 1721

• The number of those under 18 reported missing?

• Same time period = 1048

Under 18 years, 1048, 61%

18 Years and Over, 673, 39%



• Young Males v Young Females

• Which are most likely to be reported missing?

Males under 18, 445, 42%

Females under 18, 603, 58





Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation –

Welsh AssemblyGovernment

• Purpose of the guidance

• 6. This statutory guidance is supplementary to Safeguarding Children: Working Together

Under the Children Act 2004 (Working Together ) published in 2007 and should be read inconjunction with that. It has been produced to support the implementation of the All Wales

Protocol and to support local agencies in their effective application of, Working Together , in

the specialist area of CSE. It should help local agencies to:

• develop local prevention strategies;

• identify those at risk of being sexually exploited; and

• take action to safeguard and promote the welfare of particular children and young people who

are being, or may be, sexually exploited and take action against those intent on abusing and

exploiting children and young people in this way



• What are the links between missing children andCSE?

• When a young person is missing they become more vulnerableto child sexual exploitation and distanced from protective

networks• Periods of going missing is the most significant risk indicator of

child sexual exploitation

• Evidence from research and practice in Wales suggests thatyoung people known to be the victims of abuse through child

sexual exploitation are more likely to have repeated incidents ofgoing missing than other vulnerable young people

Barnardo’s Cymru



• Sexual Exploitation Risk Assessment

Framework (SERAF)



Role of Missing Person Coordinator



1st November 2012

North Wales Police appointed three temporaryMissing Person Coordinators to work across

North Wales



What they found•Significant numbers of young people go missing in North Wales

each year

•A small number of repeat cases make up a significant percentageof total reports and make significant demand on police and other

agencies

•There was a general lack of awareness across agencies, inclding

the Police, which agencies were trying to address•Many (but not all) that go missing are looked after children who

are in foster care or children’s home

•A lack of coordinated efforts to prevent or reduce the risks of

CSE hampered the overall effectiveness



• The coordinators soon identified instances

where children were putting themselves at

significant risk of CSE

• Responses, coordinated with local police

officers, social services and others, were

formulated to bring offenders to book or to

disrupt dangerous behaviour

• Significant reduction in Missing Person reports



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• Do we have a CSE problem in North Wales?

•Prosecution v Disruption?



Who has responsibility for preventing CSE

or reducing the risks?

• Police?

• Social Services?

• Schools?

• Health professionals?

•Youth Justice Services?

• Probation?

• Who Else?

• Multi Agency Working



Thank You

Steve Challinor – Missing Person Coordinator

Mark Owen – Missing Person Coordinator

Ros Cuddihy – Detective Sergeant – Strategic Public Protection

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Workshop 1 - Ros Cuddihy North Wales Police