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Why can't we protect girls in State care from sexual exploitation?

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The Limits of Training for Frontline Guard in Sexual Exploitation

The National Protective Services Bureau has accepted that there is limited training for frontline guard in this area of exploitation. What probably needs to happen as this report says is that all guardie, right down to the guardie patrolling the streets and guard citizens across the country really need to be better at recognizing the signs of sexual exploitation. That it's not a girl who's just run away for the night. Like there's a very sophisticated and at times lengthy grooming process that might have started with somebody befriending them on Snapchat or somebody buying some alcohol furthermore, giving them some cigarettes. But then after a period, escalate to incredibly sophisticated coercion and exploitation.

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