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<p>Tackling all forms of abuse and exploitation of children is a priority for this
Government. We will continue the urgent work of overhauling how our police, social
care and other agencies work together to protect vulnerable children, including from
the kind of organised grooming and sexual exploitation that has come to light in Rotherham,
Rochdale and other towns and cities across the UK.</p><p>On 3 March, the previous
Government published a report into the response to the failures in Rotherham, which
were identified by Professor Alexis Jay and Louise Casey in their reviews. The report
includes tough new measures to tackle child sexual exploitation and sets out a comprehensive,
targeted set of actions, bringing together healthcare, social care, education, law
enforcement, criminal justice agencies, and local and national government.</p><p>The
Home Office’s Minister for Preventing Abuse and Exploitation leads and coordinates
work to tackle child sexual exploitation, as well as missing children and adults,
child sexual abuse online, violence against women and girls, and modern slavery including
child trafficking. The Department for Education is responsible for Child Protection
issues including child neglect.</p><p>The Home Office and the Department for Education
work closely on these issues with other Government departments, to ensure cross-Government
policy coherence for children in England. Ministers and officials meet regularly to
oversee the important work on child sexual abuse and have established a cross- Government
programme board to oversee the development and implementation of this work. Government
Departments represented at this board include the Home Office, Department for Education,
Department for Communities and Local Government, Department of Health, Ministry of
Justice and the Attorney General’s Office.</p>
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