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Victims of abuse and exploitation are also being supported through nationally commissioned services, including the Home Office’s modern slavery victim care contract for adults, the independent child trafficking guardian service for children and the 24/7 rape and sexual abuse support line commissioned by the Ministry of Justice, but we intend to go further. As part of the VAWG strategy, this Government have, as the noble Lord, Lord Russell, said, committed up to £50 million to transform support for victims of child sexual abuse through expanding the use of child houses. I agree wholeheartedly with what the noble Lord said: anybody who has visited the existing one that provides provision in London cannot fail to be deeply impressed, and I am really proud to be a member of a Government who are expanding this. It will offer vital wraparound support to non-abusing parents and carers in one physical location. I hope this has provided some reassurance to noble Lords that services for these victims are already considered and provided for without the need for a specific statutory duty.