Written Question·Home Office·UIN 114661
Exploitation: Children
Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026
Question
Jessica Toale
Labour — Bournemouth West
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that national strategies on child criminal exploitation include gender-specific approaches for girls and young women.
Answer
Sarah JonesChildren and young people, particularly those exploited by county lines gangs, are often used to carry out criminal activity. That is why the Government is introducing a new offence of child criminal exploitation and new civil preventative orders to targe...
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