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IICSA Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual exploitation by organised networks Investigation Report
Contents
Executive Summary
Pen portraits
Part A: Introduction
A.1: Background to the investigation
A.2: Methodology
A.3: Terminology and references
Part B: The nature and scale of child sexual exploitation by networks
B.1: Introduction
B.2: Children’s experiences of sexual exploitation
B.3: The impacts on children and parents
B.4: Prevalence
B.5: Ethnicity data collection
B.6: Improving data collection and analysis
Part C: Defining child sexual exploitation by networks
C.1: Introduction
C.2: Defining child sexual exploitation
C.3: Defining networks
Part D: Meeting the needs of particular groups of sexually exploited children
D.1: Introduction
D.2: Children in care
D.3: Boys and young men
D.4: Children with disabilities
D.5: Children from ethnic minority backgrounds
D.6: LGBTQ+ children
D.7: Inclusive approaches
Part E: Recognising the child as the victim
E.1: Introduction
E.2: Sanctioning child victims
E.3: Blaming child victims
E.4: Ensuring children’s voices are heard
Part F: Risk assessment, protection from harm and outcomes for children
F.1: Introduction
F.2: Early identification of the signs of child sexual exploitation and information-sharing
F.3: Screening and risk assessments
F.4: Risk assessments and services for children
F.5: Protection of children in the case study areas
F.6: Protecting and supporting children
F7: Contextual safeguarding
Part G: Children who go missing
G.1: Introduction
G.2: The experiences of the case study children who went missing
G.3: Police investigations when children go missing
G.4: Data from the case study areas
G.5: Return home interviews
Part H: Profiling
H.1: Introduction
H.2: The purpose of problem profiles
H.3: Inaccurate prevalence information
H.4: Failures to record victim and perpetrator ethnicity
H.5: Lack of information about perpetrator groups
H.6: Other aspects of profile inaccuracy
H.7: Predictive analytics
H.8: Improving profiling in the future
Part I: Disruption, investigation and prosecution
I.1: Introduction
I.2: Effectiveness of disruption tactics in the case study areas
I.3: Investigation and prosecution of offenders
I.4: The future
Part J: Partnership working
J.1: Introduction
J.2: Multi-agency child sexual exploitation structures
J.3: Multi-agency information and intelligence-sharing
J.4: Cross-border working
J.5: Partnership with schools and health services
J.6: Partnership with third sector organisations
Part K: Audit, review and performance improvement
K.1: Introduction
K.2: Thematic inspections and reports
K.3: External inspections in the case study areas
K.4: Internal audit and improvement activity in the case study areas
Part L: Conclusions and recommendations
L.1: Conclusions
L.2: Recommendations
Annexes
Annex 1: Overview of process and evidence obtained by the Inquiry
Annex 2: Acronyms
Annex 3: Historical and legal context
Annex 4: The case study areas
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Child sexual exploitation by organised networks Investigation Report
Part D: Meeting the needs of particular groups of sexually exploited children
Part D: Meeting the needs of particular groups of sexually exploited children
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D.1: Introduction
D.2: Children in care
D.3: Boys and young men
D.4: Children with disabilities
D.5: Children from ethnic minority backgrounds
D.6: LGBTQ+ children
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