Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of local safeguarding partnerships that have a child criminal exploitation strategy.

We are working collaboratively across Government and with operational partners to raise the profile and improve the local safeguarding response to child criminal exploitation.

The statutory guidance ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ sets out the detail of what safeguarding partnerships are required to publish as part of their arrangements; including how they will work together to identify and respond to the needs of children in their area

Alongside the Department for Education, we are working with Liverpool John Moores University to test the effectiveness of multi-agency safeguarding partnerships in dealing with young people at risk or involved in serious violence and county lines.

We have recently received the findings from those reviews and are considering the best way to share the learning and practise with local areas.