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We unite across Bedfordshire to recognise National Child Exploitation Awareness Day, a reminder of our shared purpose to safeguard children and prevent exploitation.
Every child deserves safety, trust, and a chance to thrive. We amplify their voices, support families, stay professionally curious, and protect them through childhood and transitional years.
By working in partnership and sharing responsibility, we protect young people from harm outside the home, disrupt perpetrators, build safer communities with local collaboration, and nurture a culture of care.
Guided by compassion and moral purpose, safeguarding is our commitment, not just a duty, to every child’s future.
For more see National Child Exploitation Awareness Day 18 March 2026 - NWG Network
Local information on Child Exploitation is available via Safeguarding Bedfordshire. This website brings together information from Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Safeguarding Children Partnerships, including our local Pan Bedfordshire exploitation procedures(scroll to section 3.8) and various resources. Safeguarding Bedfordshire also offers a range of exploitation themed training.
The National Counter Trafficking Centre have planned a week of learning from 16.3.26 to 20.3.26 - find out more here.
Shared by: Wanitta Powell, Pan Beds Child Exploitation Development Lead
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