This one's going to be difficult. You're right. Considering what you can do to help children who get caught up in prostitution is sobering.
The consultation paper focuses on three issues: prevention; protection and support; and bringing pimps, traffickers and exploiters to justice.
What about the way we regard and portray prostitution? That's where the paper starts; by asking how common myths and misconceptions can be dispelled.
It even considers the role of schools in raising awareness of the way people can become trapped in prostitution. Vulnerable young people are groomed, coerced and manipulated into selling themselves. Then, the need to earn "easy" money becomes linked to the need to fund their own, and their partner's (sometimes their pimp's), drug use.
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