Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the definition of child sexual exploitation that is used by (a) the police and (b) children's services.

‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ is the statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, support and protect children. This guidance includes a definition of child sexual exploitation to inform the practice of all multi-agency partners, including police and children’s services: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2.