Offences against Children
(asked on 26th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of reports of child sexual exploitation there have been in (a) Telford constituency and (b) UK in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 31st January 2018
The Home Office began collecting information on Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) offences on a mandatory basis in April 2016. As CSE is not an offence as defined in law, the police will flag an offence if it is related to CSE in their statistical returns to the Home Office.
We are presently working with police forces over the quality of these data ahead of future publication.