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Home Office Fund and establish Operation Beaconport to improve investigation of group-based child sexual exploitation and support trauma-informed victims’ services.
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Home Office Develop consistent, improved and evidence-led MARAC and MATAC arrangements to support joined-up multi-agency working.
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Home Office Develop updated national guidance on VAWG protection orders, offender management, breach response and escalation pathways.
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Home Office Develop and maintain Authorised Professional Practice providing national expectations for identifying risk, safeguarding victims and pursuing offenders.
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Home Office Consult with partners on whether to amend the government definition and guidance on child sexual exploitation.
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Home Office Strengthen protection-order data recording and quality by issuing clear instructions to police forces on data entry and maintenance.
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Home Office Fund the TOEX Programme to use data and analytics to identify exploitation patterns, link offending and connect intelligence across forces.
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Home Office Improve risk-assessment practice by publishing secondary-risk-assessment guidance and strengthening information-sharing arrangements.
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Home Office Work with national policing partners and support programmes that strengthen child-sexual-exploitation policing across England and Wales.
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Home Office Keep the child-exploitation disruption framework under review to support coordinated safeguarding and information sharing.
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Home Office Support establishment of Stalking Protection Order intensification sites in selected police forces.
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Home Office Fund the CSE Taskforce to provide complex-investigation support, peer reviews, training, operational advice and national guidance products.
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Home Office Fund the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection to provide national leadership and improve public-protection policing practice.
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Home Office Deliver a cross-government approach to halve violence against women and girls over a decade under the VAWG Strategy.
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Home Office Develop a consistent, victim-centred national policing response to child sexual exploitation.
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Home Office Share child-exploitation learning and promote multi-agency working through force reviews, practitioner networks and safeguarding-partner engagement.
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Department for Education Publish transitional safeguarding guidance for adult social work, addressing young people’s transition from adolescence into adulthood.
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Department for Education Review care leaver deaths to identify safeguarding themes and lessons for future policy and operational practice.
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Department for Education Conduct an urgent review of adult safeguarding powers and duties, including consultation on updated safeguarding guidance and consideration of transition safeguards.
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Department for Education Establish a duty for local authorities to provide Staying Close support to care leavers until age 25.
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Department for Education Consult on and revise the statutory framework for children’s help, support and protection, including guidance and policy for multi-agency child protection teams.
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Department for Education Update guidance for children who go missing from home or care in collaboration with operational partners and sector stakeholders.
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Department for Education Introduce community-based Family Help and multi-agency child protection teams through the Families First Partnership programme.
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Department for Education Develop best-practice principles and training materials to improve transitions into adult social care.
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National Police Chiefs’ Council Request additional transition-to-adulthood wording in the College of Policing Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice draft.
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National Police Chiefs’ Council Review the College of Policing Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice draft for transition-to-adulthood gaps.
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National Police Chiefs’ Council Conduct an urgent review of the College of Policing Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice.
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National Police Chiefs’ Council Use national self-assessment activity to help forces and safeguarding partners evaluate child sexual exploitation responses and identify improvement areas.
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National Police Chiefs’ Council Promote disruption as a safeguarding intervention through NPCC conferences and learning events.
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National Police Chiefs’ Council Request additional transition-to-adulthood wording in the Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice.
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PFD Monitor interpretation Limited national dissemination of local safeguarding protocols
Wider context from the report “• To consider the wider dissemination of existing local protocols nationally , for example the London Exploitation Protocol.
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PFD Monitor interpretation Failure to formally review safeguarding, domestic violence or controlling or coercive behaviour risks affecting teenagers approaching 18
Wider context from the report “• Anyone requiring/needing/suffering
o Safeguarding
o Domestic violence
o Controlling/ coercive behaviour
And incurring the consequential risks, as a teenager approaching 18 should be formally reviewed by an adult safeguarding team ad the independent reviewing officer .
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PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of consistent criteria and central guidance for safeguarding offender management functions
Wider context from the report “• Re safeguarding offender management, the use of VOO's and the creation of POETs/ DAPST and RMUs: consideration should be given to the creation of one set of criteria with one name whose role it is to cover and create a central guidance .
” Is this part of a recurring concern? No recurring-concern membership is currently published.
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PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of specific protection for young people against adults creating safeguarding risks
Wider context from the report “• Thought should be given to the creation of a young person's protection by way of creation of an extension to the CAWN for the young person, against the adult creating that safeguarding risk e.g. young person's abuse warning notice.
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PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of one single national policy for policing and child sexual exploitation
Wider context from the report “• The creation of one single national policy for policing and child sexual exploitation following the groundwork laid down by Operation Hydrant and local Forces.
” Is this part of a recurring concern? No recurring-concern membership is currently published.
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PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of guidance on missing persons, runaways and return-to-home interviews
Wider context from the report “• The provision of guidance in respect of missing persons/ runaways and the return to home interviews to assist the actions of the police and local councils.
” Is this part of a recurring concern? No recurring-concern membership is currently published.
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PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of a young person's team covering transition from under-18 services to adult safeguarding teams
Wider context from the report “• Thought should be given to creating a young person's team covering the transition from under 18 (MACE) to adult safeguarding teams e.g. For the period 18-22 .
” Is this part of a recurring concern? No recurring-concern membership is currently published.
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PFD Monitor interpretation Fund and establish Operation Beaconport to improve investigation of group-based child sexual exploitation and support trauma-informed victims’ services.
Verbatim wording from the response “We are working with national policing partners to strengthen the response to child sexual exploitation, including group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation, by supporting programmes that improve the policing response across England and Wales. The Government has established the national policing operation into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse, Operation Beaconport, backed by almost £38 million, to improve policing’s ability to investigate group-based offending, ensuring a consistent response wherever abuse is reported and better, trauma-informed support for victims and survivors.” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Develop consistent, improved and evidence-led MARAC and MATAC arrangements to support joined-up multi-agency working.
Verbatim wording from the response “While Protective Order Enforcement Teams (POETs), Domestic Abuse Problem Solving Teams (DAPSTs) and Risk Management Units (RMUs) are all distinct operational teams within policing and Violent Offender Orders (VOOs) are an important tool, we recognise that they should operate as part of a coherent system. The NCVPP helps bring together learning, guidance and best practice to improve the consistency and quality of the policing response to VAWG and public protection harms. As part of this, the NCVPP is taking forward work in a number of areas linked to risk assessment, offender management, safeguarding and protection orders including:” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Develop updated national guidance on VAWG protection orders, offender management, breach response and escalation pathways.
Verbatim wording from the response “While Protective Order Enforcement Teams (POETs), Domestic Abuse Problem Solving Teams (DAPSTs) and Risk Management Units (RMUs) are all distinct operational teams within policing and Violent Offender Orders (VOOs) are an important tool, we recognise that they should operate as part of a coherent system. The NCVPP helps bring together learning, guidance and best practice to improve the consistency and quality of the policing response to VAWG and public protection harms. As part of this, the NCVPP is taking forward work in a number of areas linked to risk assessment, offender management, safeguarding and protection orders including:” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Develop and maintain Authorised Professional Practice providing national expectations for identifying risk, safeguarding victims and pursuing offenders.
Verbatim wording from the response “The Government also works closely with the College of Policing to develop and maintain its Authorised Professional Practice (APP), which sets out national guidance and clear expectations for how forces identify risk, safeguard victims and pursue offenders.” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Consult with partners on whether to amend the government definition and guidance on child sexual exploitation.
Verbatim wording from the response “The Department for Education, in collaboration with the Home Office, are currently consulting on whether to amend the government definition and guidance on child sexual exploitation, working closely with partners including law enforcement, children’s safeguarding and policing.” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Strengthen protection-order data recording and quality by issuing clear instructions to police forces on data entry and maintenance.
Verbatim wording from the response “While Protective Order Enforcement Teams (POETs), Domestic Abuse Problem Solving Teams (DAPSTs) and Risk Management Units (RMUs) are all distinct operational teams within policing and Violent Offender Orders (VOOs) are an important tool, we recognise that they should operate as part of a coherent system. The NCVPP helps bring together learning, guidance and best practice to improve the consistency and quality of the policing response to VAWG and public protection harms. As part of this, the NCVPP is taking forward work in a number of areas linked to risk assessment, offender management, safeguarding and protection orders including:” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Fund the TOEX Programme to use data and analytics to identify exploitation patterns, link offending and connect intelligence across forces.
Verbatim wording from the response “The Taskforce works closely with the Home Office funded Tackling Organised Exploitation (TOEX) Programme, which uses data and analytics to identify patterns of exploitation, link offending across force boundaries, and help police better connect intelligence so that risks to children are recognised and acted on more effectively. The Home Office is investing £10.7 million in the TOEX Programme in 2026/27.” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Improve risk-assessment practice by publishing secondary-risk-assessment guidance and strengthening information-sharing arrangements.
Verbatim wording from the response “While Protective Order Enforcement Teams (POETs), Domestic Abuse Problem Solving Teams (DAPSTs) and Risk Management Units (RMUs) are all distinct operational teams within policing and Violent Offender Orders (VOOs) are an important tool, we recognise that they should operate as part of a coherent system. The NCVPP helps bring together learning, guidance and best practice to improve the consistency and quality of the policing response to VAWG and public protection harms. As part of this, the NCVPP is taking forward work in a number of areas linked to risk assessment, offender management, safeguarding and protection orders including:” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Work with national policing partners and support programmes that strengthen child-sexual-exploitation policing across England and Wales.
Verbatim wording from the response “We are working with national policing partners to strengthen the response to child sexual exploitation, including group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation, by supporting programmes that improve the policing response across England and Wales. The Government has established the national policing operation into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse, Operation Beaconport, backed by almost £38 million, to improve policing’s ability to investigate group-based offending, ensuring a consistent response wherever abuse is reported and better, trauma-informed support for victims and survivors.” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Keep the child-exploitation disruption framework under review to support coordinated safeguarding and information sharing.
Verbatim wording from the response “in the Home Office’s Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit [See more here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-exploitation-disruption-toolkit].” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Support establishment of Stalking Protection Order intensification sites in selected police forces.
Verbatim wording from the response “While Protective Order Enforcement Teams (POETs), Domestic Abuse Problem Solving Teams (DAPSTs) and Risk Management Units (RMUs) are all distinct operational teams within policing and Violent Offender Orders (VOOs) are an important tool, we recognise that they should operate as part of a coherent system. The NCVPP helps bring together learning, guidance and best practice to improve the consistency and quality of the policing response to VAWG and public protection harms. As part of this, the NCVPP is taking forward work in a number of areas linked to risk assessment, offender management, safeguarding and protection orders including:” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Fund the CSE Taskforce to provide complex-investigation support, peer reviews, training, operational advice and national guidance products.
Verbatim wording from the response “This year the Home Office is providing £6.1 million in funding to the CSE Taskforce, part of the Hydrant Programme, which was established in 2023 to strengthen the policing response to child sexual exploitation, including group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse. The Taskforce supports police forces through complex investigations, peer reviews, training and operational advice, helping to build capability and improve investigative practice. It also contributes to the development of national policing guidance and training products, including the Authorised Professional Practice (APP).” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Fund the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection to provide national leadership and improve public-protection policing practice.
Verbatim wording from the response “The Home Office also funds the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection (NCVPP), launched in April 2025, to provide national leadership and improve professional practice in the policing response to violence against women and girls, child sexual abuse and wider public protection offences. The Centre is intended to place victims’ experiences at the heart of police investigations, deliver improved training” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Deliver a cross-government approach to halve violence against women and girls over a decade under the VAWG Strategy.
Verbatim wording from the response “Tackling domestic abuse, child sexual exploitation and abuse and violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a top priority for this government and we will treat it as the national emergency that it is. We are working to deliver a cross-government transformative approach to halve VAWG in a decade, underpinned by the new VAWG Strategy.” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Develop a consistent, victim-centred national policing response to child sexual exploitation.
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The creation of one single national policy for policing and child sexual exploitation following the groundwork laid down by Operation Hydrant and local Forces.” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Share child-exploitation learning and promote multi-agency working through force reviews, practitioner networks and safeguarding-partner engagement.
Verbatim wording from the response “In addition, the Taskforce helps to share learning and promote effective multi-agency working. Through force reviews, practitioner networks and engagement with safeguarding partners, it supports local areas to improve the identification of risk, information sharing, offender disruption and the safeguarding of children, recognising that tackling CSE requires a coordinated response across agencies.” Source location Response from Home Office
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PFD Monitor interpretation Publish transitional safeguarding guidance for adult social work, addressing young people’s transition from adolescence into adulthood.
Verbatim wording from the response “• The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) published an independent Bridging the Gap briefing setting out the importance of transitional safeguarding within adult social work in 2021. This briefing focuses on safeguarding young people journeying from adolescence into adulthood, particularly on sexual and criminal exploitation, to help prevent instances of sexual exploitation in adulthood.” Source location Response from Department for Education
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PFD Monitor interpretation Review care leaver deaths to identify safeguarding themes and lessons for future policy and operational practice.
Verbatim wording from the response “• The Department is currently undertaking a review of care leaver deaths, as announced in Spring 2026, which is expected to consider safeguarding-related issues and identify any relevant themes or lessons. We will use the findings from this work to inform future policy development and operational practice, including consideration of whether additional safeguarding arrangements or dedicated structures for adults should be introduced.” Source location Response from Department for Education
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PFD Monitor interpretation Conduct an urgent review of adult safeguarding powers and duties, including consultation on updated safeguarding guidance and consideration of transition safeguards.
Verbatim wording from the response “• The National Adult Safeguarding Board will be conducting an urgent review of adult safeguarding powers and duties. The first part of that work will be to consult on updating the safeguarding chapter of Care and support statutory guidance (CASSG). As part of this update, we will consider what guidance can be provided to strengthen safeguarding in the context of the transition of young people to adult services. In that process we will take the learning from this PFD report and consider the recommendation that when a teenager with care and support needs approaches 18 they should be reviewed formally by an adult safeguarding team and the independent reviewing officer.” Source location Response from Department for Education
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PFD Monitor interpretation Establish a duty for local authorities to provide Staying Close support to care leavers until age 25.
Verbatim wording from the response “• More broadly, we are already strengthening support for care leavers through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act (2026), including a new duty on local authorities to provide Staying Close support to age 25.” Source location Response from Department for Education
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PFD Monitor interpretation Consult on and revise the statutory framework for children’s help, support and protection, including guidance and policy for multi-agency child protection teams.
Verbatim wording from the response “• As government continues to make significant reforms to children’s social care, including through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, we are consulting on updating the statutory framework for help, support and protection for children and their families. This will form revisions to Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 (Working Together), the Children’s Social Care National Framework 2026 (the National Framework) statutory guidance, and policy that will underpin the development of the MACPT regulations.” Source location Response from Department for Education
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PFD Monitor interpretation Update guidance for children who go missing from home or care in collaboration with operational partners and sector stakeholders.
Verbatim wording from the response “• The Department for Education, working with colleagues across government, will be updating the content of the guidance for children who go missing from home or care. We will be working closely with a wide range of operational partners and sector stakeholders as part of this process, including on the format for this guidance, to ensure a robust multi-agency response to missing children.” Source location Response from Department for Education
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PFD Monitor interpretation Introduce community-based Family Help and multi-agency child protection teams through the Families First Partnership programme.
Verbatim wording from the response “• This government is supporting vulnerable children and their families, including those where domestic abuse is a factor, by intervening at the earliest opportunity through the Families First Partnership programme. Through this programme, which is supported by £2.4bn over the next three years, community based multi-disciplinary Family Help and multi-agency child protection teams are being introduced to help, support and protect children and their families.” Source location Response from Department for Education
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PFD Monitor interpretation Develop best-practice principles and training materials to improve transitions into adult social care.
Verbatim wording from the response “• In March 2026, DHSC launched an 11-month project, with the Department for Education (DfE), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and Skills for Care (SfC) to develop practical materials to improve transitions into adult social care. The project will deliver a set of best practice principles for good transitions, together with bespoke training materials for social workers and social care leaders to help ensure they have the knowledge and tools” Source location Response from Department for Education
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PFD Monitor interpretation Request additional transition-to-adulthood wording in the College of Policing Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice draft.
Verbatim wording from the response “We have taken an urgent review of the Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice that is currently out for consultation through the College of Policing. There is much within the draft APP that aligns with transitional safeguarding principles, particularly its emphasis on vulnerability, exploitation, coercion and control, trauma informed practice, professional curiosity, information sharing and avoiding victim blaming. However a gap has been identified relating to transition to adulthood, and we have requested that additional wording is included. You can find the consultation here until 4th August 2026: Child abuse APP – have your say | College of Policing.” Source location Response from National Police Chiefs Council
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PFD Monitor interpretation Review the College of Policing Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice draft for transition-to-adulthood gaps.
Verbatim wording from the response “We have taken an urgent review of the Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice that is currently out for consultation through the College of Policing. There is much within the draft APP that aligns with transitional safeguarding principles, particularly its emphasis on vulnerability, exploitation, coercion and control, trauma informed practice, professional curiosity, information sharing and avoiding victim blaming. However a gap has been identified relating to transition to adulthood, and we have requested that additional wording is included. You can find the consultation here until 4th August 2026: Child abuse APP – have your say | College of Policing.” Source location Response from National Police Chiefs Council
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PFD Monitor interpretation Conduct an urgent review of the College of Policing Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice.
Verbatim wording from the response “We have taken an urgent review of the Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice that is currently out for consultation through the College of Policing. There is much within the draft APP that aligns with transitional safeguarding principles, particularly its emphasis on vulnerability, exploitation, coercion and control, trauma informed practice, professional curiosity, information sharing and avoiding victim blaming. However a gap has been identified relating to transition to adulthood, and we have requested that additional wording is included. You can find the consultation here until 4th August 2026: Child abuse APP – have your say | College of Policing.” Source location Response from NPCC
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PFD Monitor interpretation Use national self-assessment activity to help forces and safeguarding partners evaluate child sexual exploitation responses and identify improvement areas.
Verbatim wording from the response “Alongside this, national disruption guidance and learning produced through the CSE Taskforce, Hydrant Programme and partners has sought to address one of the key findings of the DHR: the need to move beyond managing victims alone and place greater emphasis on identifying, disrupting and managing perpetrators and exploitation networks. National learning has promoted disruption as a safeguarding intervention, strengthened multi-agency approaches to exploitation through MACE arrangements, and reinforced the importance of linking missing person activity, contextual safeguarding and perpetrator management to achieve earlier intervention and improved safeguarding outcomes. National self-assessment activity has also supported forces and safeguarding partners to evaluate their response to child sexual exploitation and identify areas for improvement.” Source location Response from NPCC
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PFD Monitor interpretation Promote disruption as a safeguarding intervention through NPCC conferences and learning events.
Verbatim wording from the response “conferences and learning events have promoted the use of disruption as a safeguarding intervention, encouraging agencies to move beyond reactive measures and develop coordinated, preventative responses to perpetrators and exploitation networks.” Source location Response from NPCC
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PFD Monitor interpretation Request additional transition-to-adulthood wording in the Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice.
Verbatim wording from the response “We have taken an urgent review of the Child Abuse Authorised Professional Practice that is currently out for consultation through the College of Policing. There is much within the draft APP that aligns with transitional safeguarding principles, particularly its emphasis on vulnerability, exploitation, coercion and control, trauma informed practice, professional curiosity, information sharing and avoiding victim blaming. However a gap has been identified relating to transition to adulthood, and we have requested that additional wording is included. You can find the consultation here until 4th August 2026: Child abuse APP – have your say | College of Policing.” Source location Response from NPCC
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PFD Monitor interpretation The legal framework provides no direct adult equivalent to a CAWN or nationally adopted young person’s abuse warning notice.
Verbatim wording from the response “Child Abduction Warning Notice (CAWN) is, by design, a child protection tool and ceases to apply once the young person reaches 18. The DHR demonstrates how this created a significant safeguarding gap: the risk posed by the perpetrator remained unchanged, but one of the key disruption mechanisms available to agencies fell away when Natasha became an adult.” Source location Response from National Police Chiefs Council
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PFD Monitor interpretation No statutory Return Home Interview requirement or exploitation framework automatically continues into adulthood.
Verbatim wording from the response “For children, Return Home Interviews (RHIs) are a key safeguarding intervention. They provide an opportunity to understand why a child went missing, whether exploitation or abuse has occurred, what support is required and what action should be taken to prevent further harm. The information gathered should inform safeguarding planning, disruption activity and multi-agency risk management.” Source location Response from NPCC
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PFD Monitor interpretation No equivalent adult protection notice to a CAWN or nationally adopted young person's abuse warning notice currently exists within the divided legal framework.
Verbatim wording from the response “Child Abduction Warning Notice (CAWN) is, by design, a child protection tool and ceases to apply once the young person reaches 18. The DHR demonstrates how this created a significant safeguarding gap: the risk posed by the perpetrator remained unchanged, but one of the key disruption mechanisms available to agencies fell away when Natasha became an adult.” Source location Response from NPCC
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PFD Monitor interpretation The principal safeguarding problem was ineffective coordination between existing structures, not the absence of safeguarding structures.
Verbatim wording from the response “The review found that extensive safeguarding activity was undertaken and that agencies recognised both Natasha's vulnerability and the risk posed by the perpetrator. However, the evidence suggests that safeguarding arrangements were fragmented rather than integrated. While MACE, MARAC and MAPPA processes were all engaged, there was limited coordination between these forums and no single mechanism that retained oversight of the cumulative and escalating risk presented to Natasha. Viewed against the statutory expectations operating at the time, the principal issue therefore does not appear to be the absence of safeguarding structures, but rather the effectiveness with which those structures were connected.” Source location Response from NPCC
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