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What steps her Department is taking to help tackle child exploitation.

Tabled: 17 March 2026Answered: 23 March 2026

Asked by

Michelle Welsh

LabourSherwood Forest

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Jess Phillips)

The Government have an ambitious programme to reform and improve how child exploitation is tackled. We are introducing a new offence of child criminal exploitation, establishing the independent inquiry into grooming gangs and the national policing operation, and expanding programmes to improve support to child victims of exploitation and trafficking.