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<p>The National Police Chiefs’ Council’s totality report into Child Sexual Abuse is
a vital tool for government and police policy makers in understanding the scale and
nature of the child sexual abuse threat. It is important that policies to tackle child
sexual abuse, in every part of Government and across all agencies - education, health,
social care, law enforcement, industry and civil society, are grounded in evidence
so that they are effective in tackling this crime and safeguarding children.</p><p>
</p><p>To further build our understanding of the threat, Home Office funding provides
a dedicated analyst, working on child sexual abuse and exploitation, in each of the
ten policing Regional Organised Crime Units based in England and Wales. The Prime
Minister and Home Secretary recently announced a new Child Sexual Exploitation Police
Taskforce, which will develop a Complex and Organised Child Abuse Database to strengthen
what we know about the scale, risk and prevalence of child sexual abuse and exploitation,
as well as rolling out the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme to give a clearer
picture of organised exploitation. They will work collectively to enable us to build
on the totality report analysis and improve local forces’ understanding of risk in
their areas, and thereby better identify and disrupt offending and safeguard children.</p>
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