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“If only someone
had listened”
Office of the Children’s
Commissioner’s Inquiry into
Child Sexual Exploitation
in Gangs and Groups
Final Report
November 2013
Sue Berelowitz, Jenny Clifton,
Carlene Firimin MBE, Dr Sandra Gulyurtlu
and Gareth Edwards
Office of the Children’s Commissioner
33 Greycoat Street
London
SW1P 2QF
Tel: 020 7783 8330
Email: info.request@childrenscommissioner.gsi.gov.uk
Website: www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk
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“If only someone had listened” | Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups – Final Report
1
Table of contents
About the Office of the Children’s Commissioner
2
Inquiry team and panel
3
Acknowledgements
4
Foreword by the Deputy Children’s Commissioner
5
Executive summary
7
Introduction
15
1. Inquiry findings: The national picture
22
Part A: Why are children slipping through the net – what’s going wrong?
22
Part B: How some children have been protected – what is working
32
2 Getting it right: The Framework for action
54
Part A: See Me, Hear Me – defining principles of safeguarding
children from CSE
55
Part B: See Me, Hear Me – a Framework for protecting children from CSE
66
Part C: See Me, Hear Me – functions, processes and structures
74
3. Conclusions, recommendations and next steps
90
References
97
Appendix 1: How evidence was gathered
98
Appendix 2: Patterns of group and gang-associated child sexual
exploitation
102
Appendix 3: Warning signs and vulnerabilities checklist identified during
Phase 1 of the Inquiry
108
Appendix 4: List of relevant paragraphs/areas compared from Working
together guidance on CSE (DSCF, 2009) and OCC LSCB
data capture
112
Appendix 5: Guidance on child sexual exploitation problem-profiling
117