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Bristol City Council is using profiling of victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) to help identify young people whose social and background characteristics put them at greater risk of being exploited than their peers.
In early 2015, the council embarked on a programme to build a "social profile" of the city's population comprising data held by it on 33 different types of social issue, such as school attendance, drug and alcohol use and social services involvement, for about 170,000 residents, including 54,000 families.
The aim, says Gary Davies, head of early intervention and targeted support at Bristol City Council, was to better understand risk and vulnerability linked to CSE and to align resources to deliver support to the right children and families.
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