The Cate (children abused through exploitation) team was set up in Telford in 2008 to help young people at risk of child sexual exploitation and their families.
In 2012 seven men were jailed after being found guilty of targeting at least 100 girls in the Shropshire town.
But this month it emerged that the town's CSE problem may be far more widespread, with the Sunday Mirror claiming that as many as 1,000 children in the town could have been victims of sexual exploitation since the 1980s.
A report published by the council's children and young people scrutiny committee in May 2016 found that a lack of resources and high caseloads had limited the Cate team's ability to support the town's high number of victims.
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