ASPire 2025: Commercial sexual exploitation, human trafficking and links to Adult Support and Protection (webinar)

This is an ASPire webinar from May 2025. Its theme is commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) and human trafficking. It has sessions from Operation Begonia (Police Scotland and Scottish Government’s collaborative approach to challenging demand for prostitution and supporting those with experience of it); the Women’s Support Project (on making the links between CSE and other forms of violence against women and girls) and the TARA project (on human trafficking and exploitation in Scotland). The National Adult Support and Protection Coordinator (Brenda Walker) closes the session by making the links between the previous presentations and Adult Support and Protection.

Slides for all sessions are also attached.

This webinar includes references to sexual abuse, sexual assault, and violence against women and girls. In particular, the session between 47:20 and 01:19:47 details the real life experiences of women and may be distressing.