Agenda item

The draft scoping document for the committee’s planned review of Child Sexual Exploitation & Safeguarding is attached.

9.1  The committee discussed the review and members recommended looking at Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in more detail and, in particular, explore the following issues in more depth: Domestic Abuse; Looked After children; Grooming and the role of faith groups & voluntary organisations in preventing abuse.

9.2  The scrutiny officer reported that she and the chair had requested a briefing from Children’s Services on work to date on CSE and suggested the committee also receive an overview report, which would put the committee in a better position to decide if it wanted to focus on a particular area within CSE and/ or Child Trafficking & FGM, which are both indentified in the scoping document for the review to look in more depth. She recommended working towards looking in more depth at one of two areas, but suggested that an overview report would be helpful to set the context on both CSE and Safeguarding.

9.1  Rory Patterson, Director, Children's Social Care, explained that there has been a big investment in CSE and the strategy is now being reviewed, and offered to bring a report to the next meeting.