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Safety planning (for women involved in commercial sexual exploitation)

This booklet is directly aimed at women involved in commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). It aims to help people to stay safe and know their rights. The booklet highlights the different risks women may face while selling or exchanging sexual activity, with safety tips and strategies.

The booklet is informed by the experiences of women who are or have been involved in selling or exchanging sex or images.

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Commercial sexual exploitation and women with learning disabilities in Scotland

This report explores the intersections between women’s lived experience of learning disability and involvement in commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). It collected data and experiences from support staff in the learning disabilities and wider support sectors in order to understand the dynamics of learning disabled women's experiences of CSE. It also explores service responses and contains recommendations for future work.

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ASPire 2025: Commercial sexual exploitation, human trafficking and links to Adult Support and Protection (webinar)

This is an ASPire webinar from May 2025. Its theme is commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) and human trafficking. It has sessions from Operation Begonia (Police Scotland and Scottish Government's collaborative approach to challenging demand for prostitution and supporting those with experience of it); the Women's Support Project (on making the links between CSE and other forms of violence against women and girls) and the TARA project (on human trafficking and exploitation in Scotland).

National Chronologies Group - history, vision and priorities

This video gives a brief history of the work of the multi-agency National Chronologies Group. It outlines the group's roots and sets out its vision, priorities, and work so far. Some of the issues with chronologies are discussed, alongside what supports improvement, and how the group aims to meaningfully improve chronologies across partnerships.

The group invites you to join the conversation and learn more about its work. They can be contacted at NationalChronologiesGroup@moray.gov.uk.

 

Adult chronologies (e-learning)

This interactive e-learning course has been adapted from the Tayside Regional Improvement Collaborative - Priority Group 5 (Safeguarding and Child Protection) e-learning course. It has been developed to support enhanced practice in the use of chronologies when working with individuals and their families.

The course aims to:

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Cultural humility (e-learning)

Cultural humility is a practice of self-reflection about how our own backgrounds and the backgrounds of others can impact on our relationships. It is relevant to creating an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture in health and social care. This resource has been designed to support development of cultural humility values, attitudes, and behaviours. Included are several videos which explore the experiences of health and social care workers from varied cultural backgrounds working in Scotland.

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Understanding age in Child Protection guidance and Adult Support and Protection legislation (one-page explainer)

This one-page explainer sets out what can be found in the resource Understanding age in Child Protection guidance and Adult Support and Protection legislation. It explains how to get the most out of the resource, especially for those working with 16 and 17 year olds. This one-page explainer also contains additional reflective questions to consider and ideas for group learning sessions on the topic.

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Supervising guardians (Dundee Health and Social Care Partnership)

This video, part of Dundee's bitesize video series on the Adults with Incapacity Act 2000, explains the role of the local authority in supervising private welfare guardians. It looks at what a private welfare guardian is, how someone becomes one, and why they are supervised by the local authority. It also covers situations where there is a concern about a welfare guardian, or if the welfare guardian no longer seems necessary.

The video also contains links to other resources.