Current status: Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 31 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-38853 by Natalie Don-Innes on 27 June 2025, what its position is, regarding how they could apply in Scotland, on the measures announced by the Home Secretary for England and Wales in response to the UK Government's national audit on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse.
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-38853 on 27 June 2025. The National Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Strategic Group has now met to discuss Baroness Casey's audit on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.
The group noted ongoing Scottish Government and Police Scotland activity to consider the audit’s findings and recommendations and the linkages with a number of areas already identified in the group’s workplan, including data development, supporting multi-agency information sharing and improving practitioner training and education on identifying and responding to child sexual abuse and exploitation. The group will discuss the audit again at its next meeting on 8th October.