Extract from end of
day adjournment debate on Crime and Antisocial Behaviour:
Stockton South
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home
Department (Victoria Atkins):...The hon. Gentleman made
particular reference to serious violence. The measures that we are
taking include £17.7 million for 29 projects endorsed by police and
crime commissioners under the early intervention youth fund—part of
the £22 million that has been committed overall—and a new £3.6
million national county lines co-ordination centre led by the
National Police Chiefs’ Council and the National Crime Agency, which launched last
September. In the few months that the centre has been operating, it
has seen more than 1,000 arrests and over 1,300 vulnerable people
safeguarded, which perhaps underlines the fact that many of the
crimes that the police now have to deal with involve not only
criminality, with serious organised crime gangs and so on, but the
manipulation of vulnerable people. Tackling that forms part of our
approach under the serious violence strategy...
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Extract from
Lords debate on Grooming Gangs
(Lab):...A
further issue is why vulnerable people who are meant to be being
protected still end up being subjected to awful exploitation in
the first place. This debate relates to grooming gangs, but on
the overall position the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual
Abuse estimates that 15% of girls and 5% of boys experience some
form of sexual abuse before the age of 16. The National Crime
Agency has said that, at a conservative estimate, around 80,000
people in the UK present some kind of sexual threat to children
online. However, there seems to be a lack of reliable up-to-date
information on the extent of child sexual abuse, much of which
seems to occur in the home. Do the Government have any plans to
obtain more reliable information on the nature and level of child
sexual abuse?
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