Member

The question has been rightly and fairly posed of how the Government will ensure that lessons from the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, by the noble Baroness, Lady Casey, are acted upon. I reassure your Lordships that the Government are already acting on the recommendations of the national audit, including work with the Department for Education on unique identifiers for children and improvements to police information systems. These actions are being delivered through existing programmes, which are more agile and can be updated as new challenges arise, unlike a statutory plan, which could quickly become outdated.