Publish enhanced Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit

13. The government is committed to issuing a renewed version of the Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit in the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy. 14. The government accepts the Inquiry’s recommendation that an enhanced Toolkit should be published at the earliest practicable time, and we have now delivered on this recommendation, having published an enhanced Toolkit on 19July 2022. 15. The Toolkit highlights the key signs of child sexual exploitation that frontline professionals should be alert to, including coercion, manipulation, and deception. 16. We recognised the importance of effective problem profiling and have included information to support better problem profiling as well as work by frontline professionals to understand the threat in their local area. The Toolkit supports professionals by indicating sources of information that they should use when building a problem profile, including less well-known sources which may be currently underutilised. 17. We carefully considered the Inquiry’s recommendation to create distinct guidance for creating problem profiles for child sexual exploitation by organised networks. Given the interconnectivity between forms of exploitation, the Toolkit remains a guide for disrupting all child exploitation, although it also emphasises the need for local services to assess the particular type(s) of exploitation taking place in their area so that they can tackle it appropriately. 18. We worked closely with policing leaders, frontline practitioners such as social workers and experts from a range of third sector organisations to ensure the Toolkit is useful and accessible to a broad range of partners with a role in protecting children and disrupting offenders.

The government accepts the Inquiry’s recommendation that an enhanced Toolkit should be published at the earliest practicable time, and we have now delivered on this recommendation, having published an enhanced Toolkit on 19July 2022.