The new sanction will be introduced by extending a new criminal offence of “wilful neglect”, which was initially designed to address safeguarding failings by adult health and social workers, to apply to child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases as well.
As part of a range of steps being taken to improve responses to CSE, Cameron also announced:
Cameron said the “culture of denial” that led to children in Rotherham and elsewhere being ignored, and issues being “swept under the carpet”, must be eradicated.
“Today, I am sending an unequivocal message that professionals who fail to protect children will be held properly accountable and council bosses who preside over such catastrophic failure will not see rewards for that failure,” he said.
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