Ministers involved in the Island’s Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy group are to tackle the issue in two phases – firstly targeting those who control prostitutes and run brothels and then considering whether it should be made illegal to buy sex.
By the end of this year Home Affairs Minister Kristina Moore hopes to bring draft revised legislation to the States covering pimping and running a brothel.
In 2014 a JEP investigation revealed that as many as 40 sex workers, many of them working independently, were advertising their services in Jersey and working out of hotels.
