UNITED KINGDOM
Gainsborough Standard
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Shaun Wright says the Chief Constable must ‘act immediately’ to improve the response of the force to child sexual exploitation in the wake of a report raising serious concern about the quality of protection it provides for children across the region.
Mr Wright commissioned Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) to assess the effectiveness of the force’s approach to protecting children from sexual exploitation and to develop recommendations for improvements and its findings were published this week.
Inspectors say the force is committed to tackling child sexual exploitation but an inconsistent approach across the force area gave them ‘serious concern’ about the quality of protection children receive.
Among the areas for improvement, the report says that the leadership provided by the Chief Constable for child sexual exploitation was ‘unclear’ to many police officers and staff.
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