Daily roundup 23 March: CSE review, careers advice, and abuse inquiry

South Yorkshire Police’s handling of child sexual exploitation was “inadequate” and it “regularly missed” opportunities to tackle the issue, a review has found. The BBC reports that a probe headed by former Youth Justice Board chief executive John Drew concluded that several attempts to alert senior officers to the issue fell on "deaf ears" but the force had made “considerable progress” since.?


Nearly a third (31 per cent) of 16- to 18-year-olds have received no careers advice about apprenticeships, a study has found. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has now called on the government to improve the consistency of careers advice young people are receiving.


The judge heading the government’s inquiry into historical child sex abuse has issued a new appeal for victims to come forward. The London Evening Standard reports that Justice Lowell Goddard, said that those who have suffered exploitation can help uncover why “so many crimes went unreported and undetected” for years.


Children’s charity Spurgeons is set to expand a project it runs that works to tackle child sexual exploitation in east Birmingham. The charity was awarded funding from the Big Lottery Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to expand Project Phoenix to support more young people across the whole of the city.


Christine Renouf, chief executive of the National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS) is to retire at the end of the month, it has been announced. Renouf has led the children’s charity for five and a half years and will be succeeded by Rita Waters, current chief executive of CH1 Chester Business Improvement District.?