Home Office minister Fiona Mactaggart said: "We are concerned over the percentage of women entering prostitution as children. We are intent on making people aware of the risks for girls likely to drift into prostitution."
The strategy was largely welcomed by charities, although one former sex worker said the links between prostitution and drugs should be made clearer. Sam (not her real name), 18, an ex-addict who sold sex at age 15, said: "At school they never told us of the links between drugs and prostitution. The thing that could have helped me was to have a place to go at night, so I wouldn't have to stay at a dealer's." Sam was eventually helped off the street and off drugs by The Children's Society and Addaction.
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