Child exploitation: guidance for professionals

To address the multifaceted nature of child exploitation, local partners contribute to a Pre-MACE Panel looking at operational concerns about exploitation, which feeds into the strategic Multi Agency Criminal Exploitation (MACE) Panel, which considers themes of all young people at risk aged up to 25 years. The partnership's VCA subgroup oversees this area of work. 

For further information on local and regional responses to exploitation view: 

• MACE terms of reference
• Vulnerable child and adolescent strategy
• Youth Safety Strategy 2021-25
• The London Child Exploitation Operating Protocol 2021
• AfC Contextual Safeguarding
• Vulnerable Adolescents Supported into Adulthood (VASA) Protocol