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<p> </p><p>The Government is committed to preventing online child abuse. Details of
the Government plans to strengthen the protection of children from online sexual exploitation
were published last summer in the Action Plan of the National Group to tackle Sexual
Violence Against Children and Vulnerable People. Copies will be placed in the House
Library and can be found at the following link;<br><br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/230443<br>/Sexual_Violence_against_Children_and_Vulnerable_People.pdf<br><br>The
Child Exploitation Online Protection Command of the National Crime Agency (NCA-CEOP)
is the UK's national law enforcement agency committed to preventing and tackling the
sexual abuse of children both online and offline. In 2012/13, NCA-CEOP safeguarded
and protected 790 children, an increase of 85% on the previous year. <br><br>The NCA-CEOP
Command works closely with all 43 police forces in England and Wales, Police Scotland
and PSNI.<br><br>In January 2013, the police created a National Child Sexual Exploitation
Action Plan which sought to improve the police response to all forms of CSE both online
and offline. Each force has now completed a benchmarking exercise, allowing them to
understand and improve their capability to deal with CSE. <br><br>HMIC are close to
completing an inspection into the policing of online sexual exploitation and should
be publishing their findings in the near future. This will help us identify best practice
and also where the service needs to improve to deal with the proliferation of indecent
images on the internet and grooming.</p><p> </p>
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