£1m Lottery Fund awarded to Northern charities helping sexually exploited women
Three North East charities set to receive a portion of the National Lottery Community Fund to support vulnerable women
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Sexual grooming cases in the region has risen by more than a third
The NSPCC found that more than 80% of cases since 2017 have involved social media.
NSPCC: More than 200,000 secondary school children may have been groomed online
The charity said that one in 25 children had done so using Snapchat, Facebook or Facebook Messenger.