09/09/2026
Bear with me - this is a long one - but important! At The Hub Ross-on-Wye would like to help raise awareness of child exploitation generally, both criminal and/or sexual, with the local community as very often the risk is wrongly perceived not to be present locally.
The paragraph below explains the work of Catch22, and how they can help you as a parent, as a professional or as a young person. We would like to set up some parent awareness sessions, and would like to gauge interest in how these would be best received. These could be drop-in sessions, while we are open or in private, they could be online sessions if you would feel more comfortable taking part at home.
If this is of interest to you - please comment, or send us a private message. There is no commitment, we just want to find out what approach would suit best. Thank you!
Catch22 have over ten years of experience supporting victims of child exploitation across England and Catch22 West Mercia STEPS project is providing both preventative support and expert care to children who are impacted by child criminal and child sexual exploitation across West Merica. We are also delivering awareness and prevention sessions for professionals, children (8-18 years and up to age 24 with additional needs), parents and carers. The aim of our work is to equip young people with tools to use, both currently and in the future, which will help them identify when someone or something feels unsafe, know who they can go to for help and have language needed to describe to their support network what is impacting them in order for those people to safeguard them. The sessions increase understanding of exploitation and grooming and support young people to recognise the dangers posed by individuals to young people both in person and offline. We support young people to be able to recognise healthy vs unhealthy relationships, safety in the community and trauma responses. Our work is tailored to each young person based on their individual needs.
