CYP Now - Home Office announces new strategy to combat child sexual abuse

The Home Office has announced a new national strategy aimed at protecting children from all forms of sexual abuse.

Safeguarding policies should be updated to reflect increased home learning, experts say. Picture: Adobe Stock

The Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy sets out how the government will use new legislation and enhanced technology to stop offenders including investing in the UK’s Child Abuse Image Database to identify and catch more offenders more quickly.

Investment will allow for the development of new tools to speed up police investigations and protect officers’ wellbeing by avoiding them being repeatedly exposed to indecent images, the Home Office said.

Plans have also been announced to review Sarah’s Law - introduced following the murder of Sarah Payne in 2000 - to make it easier for parents and carers to ask police if someone has a criminal record for child sexual offences.

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