CSE Action Plan
Responding to child sexual exploitation — Authorised Professional Practice
Summary
The CSE Action Plan was developed by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) in response to the Government’s CSE Action Plan and highlighted by a thematic assessment entitled ‘Out of Mind, Out of Sight’ conducted by ACPO and the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Launched in November 2012 and revised in October 2014, the plan aims to enhance the police force's standards in addressing Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) to ensure a robust and consistent approach that protects vulnerable young people from such crimes. The plan emphasizes the importance of improvements in policing strategies, inter-agency collaboration, and safeguarding measures for children at risk of exploitation.
Key principles
- 1Enhancing standards in tackling CSE
- 2Providing a consistent police response
- 3Protecting vulnerable young people from exploitation
Defined terms
- CSE
- Child Sexual Exploitation
- ACPO
- Association of Chief Police Officers
- CEOP
- Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre
Full guidance
Responding to public protection and major investigation issues, for example, child abuse, knife crime and sexual offences
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The ACPO CSE Action Plan (Word document, 266KB) was created in response to the Government’s CSE Action Plan and a thematic assessment of CSE by ACPO and CEOP – ‘Out of Mind, Out of Sight’. The Action Plan was launched to forces in November 2012 and revised in October 2014 to reflect the findings of certain key national reports.
The action plan aims to raise the standards in tackling CSE within forces so that the police service are providing a consistently strong approach to CSE and protecting vulnerable young people from this crime.
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