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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) records all offences charged under the Modern
Slavery Act 2015 and within those, the offences that involve child abuse are flagged.
Since the Act came into force and up to the end of September 2019, the number of Modern
Slavery Act offences flagged as child abuse is as follows:</p><p> </p><ul><li>2015-2016:
1</li><li>2016-2017: 21</li><li>2017-2018: 26</li><li>2018-2019: 8</li><li>April-Sept
2019: 3</li></ul><p> </p><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p><p>
</p><p>There is no indication of the number of individual defendants prosecuted for
these offences, the final outcome of the prosecution proceeding, or if the charged
offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation. It is often the case
that defendants will be prosecuted for more than one offence in the same set of proceedings.</p>
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