Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of police community support officers have received child sexual exploitation training in each police force area in England and Wales.

All new officers and new detectives receive public protection training which includes training on child sexual exploitation. The child sexual exploitation element of this training has been made available as an e-learning course for all existing staff and officers.

As police training is delivered locally we do not hold data centrally on the proportion of frontline officers or Police Community Support Officers in each police force area that have received training on child sexual exploitation. Local police forces may hold this data.

The Home Office is strengthening the law enforcement response to crimes against vulnerable people through around £8m investment from the Police Transformation Fund. This includes £1.9million to the College of Policing to develop a comprehensive package of training for new police leaders in vulnerability. These officers will coach, brief and debrief frontline officers so they are better able to identify signs of vulnerability, including child sexual exploitation, and provide support to victims.