Child Exploitation

This chapter was updated in May 2025. Child Exploitation (CE) includes physical and emotional abuse, Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE), County Lines, and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). Perpetrators groom children, making them unaware of the exploitation. They often subject children to multiple types of abuse simultaneously, using violence and coercion to involve them in criminal activities this chapter explains why it is crucial for professionals to work together to safeguard children and disrupt the perpetrators