More than 370 girls may have been abused in Oxfordshire

The Prime Minister has said there need to be "consequences" where professionals have failed in cases of child abuse.

David Cameron said: "At the end of the day, if professionals fail there need to be consequences. One of the problems in Rotherham is that there was failure after failure by social workers, by councillors, by council officials, and yes by the police, and not enough consequences flowed from that. It is very important that consequences flow."

A new report today has revealed nearly 400 girls may have been victims of "indescribably awful child sexual abuse" in Oxfordshire and says authorities didn't believe some of the victims when they said they were being abused.

ITV News' Political Correspondent Emily Morgan reports on the findings of the serious case review which was released today:

David Cameron is holding a summit in Downing Street setting out measures to tackle the problem of the sexual abuse of vulnerable children by gangs of men.

He said children have suffered horrific sexual abuse on an "industrial scale" and that too many people and organisations are guilty of "walking on by".

The abuse of hundreds of girls in Oxfordshire should never have happened and the damning report detailing the failings of the authorities in their cases is an indictment of the frontline workers who failed to protect them, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has said.

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Detective Andrew Murray, was Senior Investigating Officer in 2011 for Thames Valley Police. He says lessons have been learned.

Caroline Lennartsson is a co-founder of OXCAT. OXCAT is an Oxford based community group, which has joined the fight against modern-day slavery. She thinks it's important that all victims of abuse to be listened to.

The College of Social Work has hit out at proposed plans to jail front line staff for failing to spot sexual abuse.

Prof Brigid Featherstone, Chair of The College’s Children and Families Faculty, said the threat of jail does not tackle the underlying issues of child sexual exploitation, nor will it help the system, which is already under a huge amount of stress.

A review into the sexual abuse of children and young people in Oxford has found that police and social services failed to take reports of abuse seriously enough, and demonstrated through their language to the families and in their official records a clear lack of understanding of the abuse.

The review found that police described the girls as "getting themselves into trouble". Other examples of victim blaming cited by the report include:

Parents told the review their concerns were frequently not taken into account - and that they were caught between a difficult, determined child and police and social services who would not take their concerns about her sexual exploitation seriously. The parents told the view: