Enhance the understanding of the tech-facilitated grooming process and how it can lead to missing children for a Comprehensive European Strategy against Grooming and Missing

Enhance the understanding of the tech-facilitated grooming process and how it can lead to missing children for a Comprehensive European Strategy against Grooming and Missing

Being Online

can pose a risk to children. As with all spaces children inhabit, the digital environment can expose them to risks of sexual exploitation and abuse, including grooming.

Grooming

is an increasing factor in disappearances. Missing Children Europe's hotlines report concerns that grooming is a growing factor in disappearances, particularly in children who run away.

Little knowledge

Research on grooming in relation to missing is sparse.
There is a need for more research to understand the potential links between grooming and missing.

Understanding Grooming

CESAGRAM aims to enhance the understanding of the process of grooming, and more particularly how it is facilitated by technology and how it can lead to child sexual abuse and missing, in order to, based on this better understanding: (a) ensure that grooming for sexual abuse and which potentially leads to going missing is prevented insofar possible, as well as to (b) ensure that victims of grooming are identified and receive appropriate support before, during and after a disappearance.

Protecting Young People

The CESAGRAM project will mainly target young people 11-14 who are at risk of grooming or are victims of grooming themselves and are at risk of missing, carers and teachers, frontline professionals (social workers, NGOs, law enforcement) as well as policy makers. It will support the implementation of the existing legislation on child sexual abuse along with the European Commission’s Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Network (CSAPN) and the future European Centre against Child Sexual Abuse, as well as the relevant strategies developed by the European Commission (Child Rights Strategy, EU Child Sexual Abuse strategy, European Strategy for a Better Internet for Children).

The project will work on an EU level, but specifically in Belgium, Greece, Italy, and Lithuania.

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📣 The Blog post #9 of @cesagramEU is out!

You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/dbswfeZ9

🙏 Special thanks to: #FBK

Stay tuned because more blog posts are coming!

🌐 Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/d2wSq7DG

#CESAGRAMprojectEU #ISF #SecurityUnion #blogpost

🗣 The project coordinator presented the @cesagramEU in the "Safeguarding children: Understanding and Combating Online Child Sexual Abuse and Grooming" event which took place virtually on the 28th of August.

The workshop was co-organised with #CNZD

The Prevention Through Education Joint Webinar took place today virtually!

🗣The presentations sparked interesting conversations between the participants. A really fruitful Q&A session was the perfect ending to this important webinar.

Thank you all for your participation🙏

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📅 Save the Date! The @cesagramEU Final Conference, "The Missing Voice in Grooming," is on December 9-10 in Brussels.

We’ll highlight unheard victims' voices and key strategies to combat online grooming.

More info and registration: https://missingchildreneurope.eu/cesagram/

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