Parents Against Child Exploitation (Pace)

Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (Pace) is a national charity, based in Leeds, that works alongside parents and carers of children who are – or are at risk of being – sexually exploited by perpetrators external to the family. We offer guidance and training to professionals on how child sexual exploitation affects the whole family. Pace seeks to: - Enable parents and carers to safeguard and stop their children from being sexually exploited. - Provide evidence and specialist advice to demonstrate to partners that parents and carers are an essential safeguarding resource. - Work with parents and partners to disrupt and bring perpetrators to justice. - Influence national and local policy and practice to reflect the active safeguarding role of parents and the impact on families of child sexual exploitation. - Sustain long term change by training partners in the active role of parents and carers safeguarding their children Pace is the name for the charity formerly known as CROP, the Coalition for the Removal of Pimping. CROP was founded by Irene Ivison and a number of supporting parents in 1996 following the murder of Irene's daughter, who was forced into prostitution by a pimp.