Offences against Children
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent employees at the National Crime Agency are working on cases relating to group-based child sexual exploitation.
Answered by Jess Phillips
The NCA is helping to tackle the heinous crime of Group Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse through its work overseeing Operation Beaconport in collaboration with policing and conducting Operation Stovewood on behalf of South Yorkshire Police. Resource allocation is rightfully a matter for the NCA as an operationally independent organisation.
Operation Beaconport, which has already begun, is part of the government’s response to recommendations from Baroness Casey’s Independent Audit and will enable us to ensure that past failures are addressed, justice is delivered, best practice is shared, and that we equip the system to deal with complex cases effectively.
Operation Stovewood is the single largest law enforcement investigation into non-familial child sexual exploitation and abuse in the UK. The operation is paid for by South Yorkshire, who are supported by the department through Police Special Grant for this operation.
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