Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 23 December 2025 (HL12716), what is the timeline and development plan for non-statutory guidance to be issued to all relevant frontline practitioners safeguarding children from criminal exploitation to ensure a range of stakeholders can contribute; and what steps they will take to mitigate limitations to non-statutory guidance, including inconsistencies across documents and delays in updating guidance that is not statutory.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Crime and Policing Bill includes a provision for statutory guidance to be issued to relevant law enforcement officers about their role in preventing, detecting and investigating the new child criminal exploitation (CCE) offence and about their functions relating to the new CCE prevention orders being introduced in the Bill.

We also intend to issue non-statutory guidance for other frontline practitioners to support them to understand the new CCE offence and orders. We will work with stakeholders and other relevant Government departments to develop the guidance to ensure that it provides clear and effective information on disrupting the criminal exploitation of children and supporting victims. The new guidance will supplement existing statutory guidance and will be published in due course.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to issue statutory guidance to all statutory safeguarding partners, including police, local authorities and integrated care boards, for the criminal exploitation of children measures in the Crime and Policing Bill should the Bill receive Royal Assent; and if not, why not, and what steps they will take to clarify roles and responsibilities and embed best practice in safeguarding children from exploitation in that absence of that statutory guidance.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

We recognise the importance of effective multi-agency working to safeguard children from criminal exploitation.

The Crime and Policing Bill includes provision for statutory guidance to be issued to relevant law enforcement officers about their role in preventing, detecting and investigating the new child criminal exploitation offence and about their functions relating to the new child criminal exploitation prevention orders being introduced in the Bill.

In addition, we will publish non-statutory guidance for all relevant frontline practitioners (including statutory partners) to help them understand the new offence and their role in disrupting this crime and supporting victims. This guidance will supplement existing statutory guidance, including ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ and ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, which set out the roles and responsibilities of organisations and agencies to help, support, safeguard and protect children from harm, including in relation to child criminal exploitation.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sport and Physical Activity in the Criminal Justice System’s report Physical Activity and Sport across the Children and Young People Secure Estate, and Adult Custodial Estate in England and Wales, published in December 2025.

Answered by Lord Timpson - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

We appreciate the considerable work that has gone into the inquiry.

His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) has been engaged with the work of the All-Party Parliamentary Group over many years, including in relation to this latest review. HMPPS will give careful consideration, in collaboration with other partners, to those recommendations in the report that are addressed to it.

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what consultations took place with young people in Young Offender Institutions as part of the development of the report Youth Matters: Your National Youth Strategy, published on 10 December 2025.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

‘Youth Matters: Your National Youth Strategy’ and ‘Youth Matters: State of the Nation’ report are informed by the voices of over 14,000 young people. To ensure a broad and representative range of perspectives were included, my officials conducted deep dives with specific underrepresented cohorts, including with 50 young offenders at HMP Forest Bank in Manchester, supported by the Hope Collective. Our findings were shared with the Ministry of Justice.

Found: meeting Members present: Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (The Chair); Baroness Barran; The Lord Bishop of Derby

Found: The Committee considered and agreed, having received a representation, that the Lord Bishop of Derby

Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Heidi Allen MP Jess Phillips MP Alex Norris MP Lord Gordon of Strathblane Lord McColl Lord Bishop of Derby

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