Statement in response to the report of Tom Crowther QC
Child sexual exploitation is an abhorrent crime which should have no place in our communities. The Safeguarding Partnership deeply regrets the pain and suffering experienced by victims and survivors of child sexual exploitation (CSE). The Chair of the Independent Inquiry has made a number of recommendations, some of those are for individual organisations and some are for the Safeguarding Partnership to consider. Given the length of the report, it is impossible to provide a substantive response to those recommendations but we will be considering each of them in detail and will put a plan in place to ensure we embrace every opportunity to improve our ways of working to support children and young people within our Borough.