? Following a high-profile child sexual exploitation (CSE) case in Rochdale, the local authority, working with Wigan Council, set up a service to support victims of abuse
? The service, funded by nearly £1m from the Department for Education Social Care Innovation Programme, allocates therapeutic social workers to child victims of CSE and those at risk
? Launched in January, the service is funded until June 2017 and will be evaluated later this year, with the hope of being expanded
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In 2012, nine men were arrested in Rochdale for being part of a child sexual exploitation (CSE) gang that targeted young girls. The arrests led to an independent report that criticised Rochdale Council’s safeguarding procedures. Nine men were convicted this year of sexual offences against teenage girls and sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison.
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