Report: Protecting children in Oxfordshire from CSE – Update

The Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board has published a report into child sexual exploitation in the county.

The report is a ‘stocktake’ of the good progress made by all organisations in providing specialist support services for victims of CSE; bringing more perpetrators to justice through the use of new disruption methods; ensuring schools, academies, FE colleges, and the wider community understand how to spot the signs of children at risk of exploitation; and demonstrating the impact of changes by the NHS to bring school nurses into every secondary school, train the range of different NHS professionals and work together to support the victims of abuse.

The stocktake report also describes the need to continue to prevent abuse and exploitation and notes there are five areas in particular that require further work.

These include the regulation and use of taxis; a greater understanding of who the perpetrators of CSE are;and the commissioning of services to provide help and  therapy for children into adulthood.

You can access the full report here: CSE Stocktake – Full Report.