Collect disaggregated CSE data
IICSA · Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised Networks Investigation Report · Issued 1 February 2022 · Addressed to: UK Government
Government responseUK Government: Noted (Jul 2022)
DeliveryHome Office says in progress (Jul 2022)
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, B
Police forces and local authorities in England and Wales must collect data on all cases of known or suspected child sexual exploitation and child sexual exploitation by networks. These data should be separated from other data sets, including data on child sexual abuse, and be disaggregated by the sex, ethnicity and disability of both the victim and perpetrator. This disaggregated data should be used by police forces to inform problem profiling and activities to disrupt and investigate offenders. Local authorities should take account of the disaggregated data when commissioning services for children. The UK government and the Welsh Government should take steps to ensure that these data are being collected and disaggregated in a consistent and accurate way by police forces and local authorities.
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Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
The Inquiry asked the government to ensure authorities collect disaggregated child sexual exploitation data. In July 2022, HM Government stated that it was working with police to improve the collection, analysis, and use of child sexual exploitation data (Home Office response, Jul 2022; Home Office, Jul 2022). It highlighted funding for regional analysts and noted a mandatory requirement for police forces to record the ethnicity of suspected grooming gang arrestees (Home Office response, Jul 2022). The response did not mention local authorities or disaggregation by sex and disability, and noted that the first ethnicity data publications were expected in late 2023 (Home Office response, Jul 2022). The record holds nothing dated later than the response of July 2022 (Home Office response, Jul 2022).
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Government response
●UK Government · Noted · 27 Jul 2022
27. The Home Office recognises the importance of robust data collection on suspects and offenders to inform problem profiling and activities to disrupt and investigate offenders. That is why we are working with police to drive improvement in the collection, analysis and use of data on child sexual exploitation. 28. This includes funding dedicated child sexual abuse and exploitation analysts in every policing region. As well as informing local tasking to support forces in tackling child sexual exploitation, the analysts form a network which is improving understanding of this offending nationally as well as driving up data quality. 29. The government also funds the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme which supports the police to uncover and prosecute more offending. This programme provides specialist analytical resources to forces, and brings together local, regional, and national data to support enforcement against organised exploitation of vulnerable people. 30. The government has also introduced a mandatory requirement for police forces to record the ethnicity of those arrested and held in custody because of their suspected involvement in grooming gangs. Since March 2022 police forces have had a mandatory duty through the Annual Data Requirement to collect this data, with the first publications of this data expected in late 2023. 31. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) will provide their own response.
Delivery
●Home Office says in progress · 27 Jul 2022
The Home Office recognises the importance of robust data collection on suspects and offenders to inform problem profiling and activities to disrupt and investigate offenders. That is why we are working with police to drive improvement in the collection, analysis and use of data on child sexual exploitation.
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