Child Exploitation Support and Missing from Home Services

Descriptions

Provision of a pan-Merseyside Child Exploitation support service by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside, with an additional offer of the PCC working in partnership with local authority areas. This will enable the provision of a dedicated and specialist child exploitation service to children and young people who are either at risk of child exploitation or who have already suffered exploitation. In addition, partnership co-operation will enable an enhanced service, available to Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and Liverpool local authority areas, as detailed within this ITT. In addition to the above the provision of a missing from home and care service for children and young people across St Helens and Knowsley local authority areas. As with the above service for CE, the missing service will be available to Wirral, Liverpool and Sefton local authorities in the future.