A 14-year-old girl is in danger of sexual exploitation after runningaway from home but social services want her to return to her father.
A practitioner at a Barnardo's project for sexually exploited girlsexplains how she had to balance the need to help the girl withmaintaining good relations with social services.
I was a practitioner at a Barnardo's service for sexually exploitedgirls, and one of them was a 14-year-old with a history of running awayand placing herself in dangerous situations. She had been staying in acrack house for about three months and had been befriended by peoplethere who were sexually exploiting her. One of the people living in thehouse had contacted police anonymously to say she was having sex withsomeone who was HIV-positive.
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