The internal probe is being carried out by the authority's local safeguarding children board following an inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), which highlighted failings with the way children in residential care who are at risk of CSE are dealt with by authorities.
It comes just weeks after South Yorkshire Police came under intense criticism after an investigation into child sexual exploitation in nearby Rotherham - just 12 miles away from Doncaster - estimated there had been 1,400 victims in the town between 1997 and 2013.
News of the review - which features in a progress report into the state of children's services in Doncaster set for discussion at a council meeting next week - comes just days before children's services at the authority are due to be transferred to an independent trust.
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