Member

One of the problems is if either the young person or the family are not prepared to identify the exploiter or perpetrator, or if they do not know who they really are—if they have been given the wrong name or a codename, for example. As the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, said, a young person may look like the perpetrator, but I can bet there is an older person behind them who is much cleverer and more attuned to how you get round the criminal justice system. That has certainly been my experience. Sometimes, that means you cannot actually identify the exploiter. Therefore, it becomes very difficult to use even the measures currently in the Bill to deal with the situation. We want to be able to deal with the situation and protect the child in their family in ways that mean the exploiter knows they are not going to be able to get near them or interfere with them.