FOI request (FOIR-705661537)

Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

Requested Mon 14 April 2025
Responded Tue 22 April 2025

I wish to make a Freedom of Information request regarding Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), and would be grateful if you could provide the information below within the statutory timeframe of 20 working days.

Local councils have a statutory duty to operate mechanisms that 'collect prevalence and monitor cases of CSE'. They 'should have specific local procedures to cover CSE (eg a strategy)'. I refer to the Local Government Association document ‘Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: A Resource Pack for Councils’, page 6.

Can you please confirm:

a. that your council currently operates these mechanisms and has a strategy to cover CSE,

b. the nature of these mechanisms used to monitor CSE and the strategy in place,

c. the current number of cases of CSE being monitored by your council,

d. the number of CSE cases monitored that are thought to be gang/group based (cases involving 2 or more perpetrators),

e. a breakdown of ethnicity and, if possible, age of the assumed victims of CSE being monitored by your council,

f. a breakdown of ethnicity of perpetrators for cases being monitored by your council,

g. the number of cases being monitored each year between 2010 and 2024 (please use the most appropriate reporting date for this data and, if this is not available, please provide this information as of the 1st March of that year). If data is not available for a particular year then please specify the reason for this.

Response

Information not held.

Children's Services are dealt with by East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk