Crackdown on sexual explotation in Blackburn helps 385 young women (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Crackdown on sexual explotation in Blackburn helps 385 young women
11:00am Thursday 11th March 2010 in Keep Them Safe campaign
SUPPORT: Julie Wareing of Brook
SOME 385 young women have been offered protection as part of a crackdown on sexual exploitation in Blackburn in less than two years, it has been revealed.
The Engage team, which aims to tackle men who groom young girls for sex, has also secured 63 charges against suspected offenders since its inception in March 2008.
Engage was launched in response to growing evidence of young girls being ‘groomed’ by older men and given drugs, alcohol and gifts in return for sex.
It was given a boost when the Lancashire Telegraph launched its Keep Them Safe campaign in conjunction with the team.
Now Brook, the Blackburn-based sexual health charity, has won a national award for its ‘innovative work’ with young people who have been sexually exploited.
The charity is part of the group approach to Engage, which includes Blackburn with Darwen Council social workers, police officers, the NHS and charities Lifeline, Barnardo’s and the Coalition for the Removal of Pimping.
The Engage team uses its members’ skills and expertise to track down offenders who groom children for sex while offering support and protection to young victims and their families.
Brook, based in Darwen Street, was awarded the Brook Innovation of the Year Award 2010.
Julie Wareing, chief executive of Brook Blackburn, said: “The Brook vision wants all children and young people to be supported to develop the self-confidence, skills and understanding they need to enjoy and take responsibility for their sexual lives, sexual health and emotional well-being.”
Nick McPartlan, Engage team manager, said: “Our task is to undo what the perpetrator has done, with prosecution being the icing on the cake.”
Entries gave a short presentation at the awards ceremony on Thursday, March 4, at the Emirates stadium, London, home of Arsenal Football Club.
After the presentations, the audience voted to choose the winning innovation, which was announced on the night.
Comments(26)
akon
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11:37am Thu 11 Mar 10
Ref named & shamed .
It won't happen due the ethnicity of the dirty vile offenders !!
dave bax
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11:56am Thu 11 Mar 10
Mike Costa
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12:20pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Akon, racist? Never! Perish the thought!
akon
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12:38pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Have you actually said anything to your neighbour or are you just one of the curtain- twitching brigade ?
Better still report it to the police as they are one of the best forces in the country,must be right cos it's in the LET !! haha
em...acc
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12:40pm Thu 11 Mar 10
etelegraph.co.uk/new
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Just in case anyone questions Akon!!
Vile dirty filthy creatures need putting down. Dave Bax totally agree about uping the standard as you put it, but, how do you suggest stopping these disgusting animals hanging around the bowling alley's, ice rinks and cinema's just waiting for an opportunist moment?? my 13 year old SOBER daughter has been approached 3 times now ...on a saturday afternoon!!! told the police but it would seem that for some reason they just never seem to be parked in the right spot to be able to make out the number plate....shame when kids can't just be kids anymore and have an afternoon trip to the cinema without being chaperoned for there own safety?? well done to the keep them safe team though.
Ken Shuffles
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3:21pm Thu 11 Mar 10
ional desires. Perhaps these men have something missing in their make-up.
ewoodpark
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4:37pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Ken Shuffles
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5:02pm Thu 11 Mar 10
What man has not used women as a sex toy. ? MEN THINK of SEX as if it is THEIR Toy.. ffs.
Ken Shuffles
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5:08pm Thu 11 Mar 10
FOR MOST MEN THE PRICE OF AFFECTION IS USUALLY SEX. ask any Woman how affectionate her man is if she isn't giving him any sex.
Ken Shuffles
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5:09pm Thu 11 Mar 10
ewoodpark
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5:15pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Ken Shuffles wrote:ken, its EWOODPARK, if you're having trouble with your spelling get help, and another thing i said " there are using our KIDS as sex toys" now if kids are your idea of sex toys then you need shooting.
ewoodBARK. What man has not used women as a sex toy. ? MEN THINK of SEX as if it is THEIR Toy.. ffs.
ewoodpark
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5:21pm Thu 11 Mar 10
nosimongarner
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5:24pm Thu 11 Mar 10
ewoodpark
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5:36pm Thu 11 Mar 10
K!!
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6:36pm Thu 11 Mar 10
ewoodpark
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6:49pm Thu 11 Mar 10
excaliber
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7:50pm Thu 11 Mar 10
http://www.lancashir
etelegraph.co.uk/new
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In which it is stated:
"up to 100 girls between 12 and 16 in East Lancashire had been targeted by gangs of older predatory males predominantly Asian in the last year"
Adamski_666
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8:21pm Thu 11 Mar 10
the abuse is not confined to just your lot, they also do it to asian girls but you wont hear about it as much as the stupidity of some in the community is to sweep it under the carpet and pretend it doesnt happen.
youre just a racist c*** and i bet you are most probably involved in something like this yourself.
now grandad go and do one, make sure you dont freeze to death turd brain
if you dont like it, leave the country and move to Oz where the rest of your family and their criminal mind set are.
Ken Shuffles
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8:22pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Ken Shuffles
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8:27pm Thu 11 Mar 10
The point I was making was that there are Men who think sex is a toy. THEIR toy.
cutthebull
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9:41pm Thu 11 Mar 10
K!!
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10:00pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Ken Shuffles
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11:29am Fri 12 Mar 10
retired one
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11:38am Fri 12 Mar 10
Peckish
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1:26pm Sat 13 Mar 10
retired one says...
11:15am Thu 11 Mar 10
Why can't they be named and shamed though, I have never seen anything in the Telegraph saying what the punishment is for these vile offences.