The safeguarding risks for young people have never been more varied. In the past few years, threats from child sexual exploitation (CSE), online grooming, radicalisation by ideological extremists and female genital mutilation (FGM) have emerged and evolved.
The government has begun to recognise the need for a system-wide response to these issues, but a key part of the jigsaw has so far been missing - the role youth work organisations, specifically those in the voluntary sector, can play in the wider safeguarding agenda has not been fully realised.
This is a huge opportunity missed, as was illustrated by the CSE scandal in Rotherham, where concerns about the safety of young people were first raised by a youth work charity.
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