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999138

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 176432 on Offences against Children, whether any funding requests from police forces for investigations into child sexual exploitation have been rejected by the Government in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	186384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p /><p /><p>No applications for Special Grant funding in respect of investigations into Child Sexual Exploitation have been declined in the last three years.</p><p>Applications declined are published alongside successful applications on the Gov.uk website</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/11/2018 18:06:48 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

982534

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any funding requests have been received by police forces in the last 12 months relating to investigations into child sexual exploitation; how much such funding has been made available; and which police forces have received such funding.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	176432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has provided £150,000 in Special Grant funding to the Metropolitan Police Service for Operation Grange for 2018/19. A further application from the Metropolitan Police Service has been received and is under consideration. No further requests have been received relating to the search for missing children.</p><p>The Home Office has received several requests for Special Grant funding relating to investigations into child sexual exploitation. For 2018/19, the Home Office has agreed to provide up to £1.9 million to Norfolk Police for Operation Hydrant, £995,000 to North Wales Police for Operation Pallial, £11.4 million to South Yorkshire Police for Operation Stovewood and £3.3 million to Cleveland Police for Operation Pandect.</p><p>Information on 2017/18 Special Grant applications has been published and can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications</a>.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 176431 question first answered 16/10/2018 16:25:24 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

980132

registered interest
date	01/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that victims of grooming gangs are not stigmatised by social services.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL10401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The department published, in February 2017, a new definition of child sexual exploitation and guidance for practitioners. This non-statutory guidance was produced to help all safeguarding professionals who work with children and families to identify child sexual exploitation and respond to children to support and help them appropriately.</p><p>In July, the department published the attached revised and strengthened version of our statutory safeguarding guidance ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’. This clarifies the core legal requirements on individuals and organisations to keep children safe. It makes clear that whatever the form of abuse or neglect, practitioners should put the needs of children first when determining what action to take. The guidance includes clear advice on child sexual abuse and exploitation.</p><p>The ‘Knowledge and Skills statement’ for child and family social work practitioners (attached) also sets out that in terms of abuse and neglect they should be able to consider the possibility of child sexual exploitation, grooming (on and offline), amongst other harms that pose a risk to children.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL10401_Knowledge_and_skills_statement_for_practice_leaders.pdf title HL10401_Knowledge_and_skills_statement_for_practic 2 file name HL10401_Working_Together_to_Safeguard_Children-2018.pdf title HL10401_Working_Together_to_Safeguard_Children-201 question first answered 15/10/2018 10:53:29 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

980133

registered interest
date	01/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures are in place to support and rehabilitate victims of grooming gangs in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL10402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>This Government attaches the highest priority to tackling all forms of sexual exploitation and to ensuring that all victims, whether they are a child or an adult, get the protection and support they need.</p><p>Police have a range of powers to protect children from child sexual exploitation, including Sexual Harm Prevention Orders, Sexual Risk Orders, Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders and Child Abduction Warning Notices. To help local agencies make best use of these and other powers, we will publish a child exploitation toolkit, setting out the full range of powers available to police and local partners to protect victims and disrupt offenders.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that victims receive quality support when and where they need it. In each of the last three years the Government has allocated around £7.2m in funding to sexual violence support services to provide independent, specialist support to female and male victims of sexual violence, including victims of child sexual abuse. This includes £1.7m to rape support services across England and Wales to provide specialist support to victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation. A further £4.7m has been allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners specifically to commission services supporting victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL10403 HL10404 question first answered 15/10/2018 15:17:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

980134

registered interest
date	01/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they offer to victims of grooming gangs in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL10403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>This Government attaches the highest priority to tackling all forms of sexual exploitation and to ensuring that all victims, whether they are a child or an adult, get the protection and support they need.</p><p>Police have a range of powers to protect children from child sexual exploitation, including Sexual Harm Prevention Orders, Sexual Risk Orders, Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders and Child Abduction Warning Notices. To help local agencies make best use of these and other powers, we will publish a child exploitation toolkit, setting out the full range of powers available to police and local partners to protect victims and disrupt offenders.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that victims receive quality support when and where they need it. In each of the last three years the Government has allocated around £7.2m in funding to sexual violence support services to provide independent, specialist support to female and male victims of sexual violence, including victims of child sexual abuse. This includes £1.7m to rape support services across England and Wales to provide specialist support to victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation. A further £4.7m has been allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners specifically to commission services supporting victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL10402 HL10404 question first answered 15/10/2018 15:17:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

980135

registered interest
date	01/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the protection offered to victims of grooming gangs in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL10404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>This Government attaches the highest priority to tackling all forms of sexual exploitation and to ensuring that all victims, whether they are a child or an adult, get the protection and support they need.</p><p>Police have a range of powers to protect children from child sexual exploitation, including Sexual Harm Prevention Orders, Sexual Risk Orders, Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders and Child Abduction Warning Notices. To help local agencies make best use of these and other powers, we will publish a child exploitation toolkit, setting out the full range of powers available to police and local partners to protect victims and disrupt offenders.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that victims receive quality support when and where they need it. In each of the last three years the Government has allocated around £7.2m in funding to sexual violence support services to provide independent, specialist support to female and male victims of sexual violence, including victims of child sexual abuse. This includes £1.7m to rape support services across England and Wales to provide specialist support to victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation. A further £4.7m has been allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners specifically to commission services supporting victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL10402 HL10403 question first answered 15/10/2018 15:17:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

967493

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many police forces in England and Wales have disbanded their specialist child protection teams and allocated their work to Criminal Investigation Departments.
tabling member printed	Lord Laming
uin	HL9984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not keep a record of how individual police forces are structured. Team structures and deployment of officers within police forces are rightly decisions for Chief Constables, working with their democratically accountable Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>We recognise the need for police forces to be properly equipped to deal with the changing nature of crime. We have provided significant extra investment through the Police Transformation Fund to support policing to respond to changing crimes and threats including against vulnerable children.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 17/09/2018 12:46:42 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming

947614

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps, if any, they are taking to refer to the Independent Office for Police Conduct for investigation officers in Greater Manchester Police, Thames Valley Police, West Mercia Police, and Northumbria Police for any failure in their statutory duty to protect children from so-called “grooming gangs”.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL9879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2018 answer text <p>In March 2015 the Home Office established the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to consider the extent to which institutions – including the police – have failed in their duty to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. The Inquiry has announced an investigation examining institutional responses to the sexual exploitation of children by organised networks.</p><p>This Government attaches the highest priority to tackling child sexual exploitation. We have declared it a national threat and this categorisation remains in force to empower police forces to apply their best skills and expertise to tackle the problem.</p><p>The Independent Office for Police Conduct operates independently of Government and the Home Secretary does not have the power to refer matters to it for investigation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL9880 question first answered 07/08/2018 12:05:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

947615

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will set up a national independent inquiry into whether police forces across the country failed to fulfil their statutory duty to protect children from so-called “grooming gangs” during the period 1995 to 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL9880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2018 answer text <p>In March 2015 the Home Office established the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to consider the extent to which institutions – including the police – have failed in their duty to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. The Inquiry has announced an investigation examining institutional responses to the sexual exploitation of children by organised networks.</p><p>This Government attaches the highest priority to tackling child sexual exploitation. We have declared it a national threat and this categorisation remains in force to empower police forces to apply their best skills and expertise to tackle the problem.</p><p>The Independent Office for Police Conduct operates independently of Government and the Home Secretary does not have the power to refer matters to it for investigation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL9879 question first answered 07/08/2018 12:05:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

947617

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support programmes have been set up for the victims of so-called "grooming gangs"; what has been the cost of any such programmes; and what compensation, if any, those victims have received.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL9881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2018 answer text <p>This Government attaches the highest priority to tackling all forms of sexual exploitation and to ensuring that all victims, whether they are a child or an adult, get the support they need.</p><p>In each of the last three years the Government has allocated around £7.2m in funding to sexual violence support services to provide independent, specialist support to female and male victims of sexual violence, including victims of child sexual abuse. This includes £1.7m to rape support services across England and Wales to provide specialist support to victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation. A further £4.7m has been allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners specifically to commission services supporting victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation.</p><p>In 2017/18 the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme paid out £154 million to victims of violent crime, including victims of childhood sexual abuse.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 07/08/2018 12:11:28 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch