A review of CSE procedures across the North East city by Middlesbrough Council’s community safety and leisure scrutiny panel heard evidence that the problem in the area was more severe than first thought and that younger children as well as teenagers were being targeted by abusers.
Its report said: “Exploitation had been identified as an emerging issue in Middlesbrough and the numbers were significantly higher than in the other Tees Valley areas.
“Worryingly, members heard that the risk was not only to secondary school pupils and that incidences of primary school pupils being targeted had been picked up in the transition process from primary to secondary school.”
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