New home office group to focus on child abuse gangs

The Policing and Criminal Justice Minister Damian Green has responsed to the sentencing of seven men to 95 years in total for child abuse crimes.

"This horrific case of sexual exploitation shows we must strive harder to protect vulnerable children. Work is already underway to improve that protection, but I am determined to do more" he said.

"A new Home Office-led group will look at how to better identify those at risk and create a more victim-focused culture within the police, health and children’s services".

"But our prime responsibility is, of course, stopping abuse before it starts. The group will be working to target the organised crime networks that perpetrate the sort of systematic abuse we have seen in Oxford".