Executive Summary
Building on the academic research, best practice approach and work undertaken by the NESWF over a number of years, including facilitating and supporting voices of lived experience, the NESWF have convened a strategic level multi agency forum across Cleveland’s range of organisations, including criminal justice partners, local authorities, health and voluntary sector agencies to coordinate a range of responses to address sex work in communities, including working with the police and safeguarding those being exploited. This work has included a lived-experience- informed and led conference to develop a Cleveland sex work strategy with partners, training across a range of agencies and development of a draft strategy. The NESWF has recently become registered as a charity and requires funding to enable the coordination of work with partners to both develop and deliver a sex work strategy which will support awareness raising, policy and practice change, where relevant, and better outcomes for those involved in, affected by or exploited in the sex industry.
Decision 2023/24 – 0039: Cleveland Sex Work Strategy Development (application, 152kB)