Director of children's services at the county council Cath McEvoy-Carr, as well as leaders for safeguarding, policing, youth offending, probation and clinical commissioning were praised for their "strong commitment" to working together to safeguard children.
However, the targeted joint-area inspection into how the county deals with both criminal and sexual child exploitation found that "the complex needs of children who offend because of child sexual and/or criminal exploitation are not sufficiently recognised or planned for".
Service leaders are required to produce a written statement of proposed action setting out how they will address the problem.
Following a series of inspections by Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission, HMI Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, and HMI Probation in June, the report, published this month, adds that practitioners' understanding of child criminal exploitation is "underdeveloped", with few social workers having used multi-agency training.
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