Police in England and Wales identify 287 child sexual exploitation cases for review

Police forces in England and Wales have identified a further 287 outstanding cases of alleged child sexual exploitation by rape gangs, Yvette Cooper has disclosed. “For those forces, 287 historic cases have been identified for review by the police child sexual exploitation taskforce,” she said. Asked about the government’s counter-extremism programme Prevent, Cooper said she was “very concerned” by evidence of increasing extremism among young people. This may be about far-right extremism, far-right extremism and violent extremism,” she said. The home secretary said there had been a doubling of the number of young people being referred to Prevent since last summer.