Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Taskforce
The Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Taskforce was established in 2023 to enhance the policing response to group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse, and works with partners to improve:
• How we prepare our response to threat
• How we protect children from exploitation and abuse
• How we prevent group-based child sexual exploitation
• How we pursue those that perpetrate crimes and bring more offenders to justice.
In doing so we work to increase the confidence of both victims and survivors, and the wider public in the policing approach to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse.
The Hydrant Programme lead the CSE Taskforce and are supported by two other national policing programmes, the Tackling Organised Exploitation (TOEX) Programme and the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme (VKPP). All are uniquely placed to offer support, advice and guidance to police forces, partners and stakeholders working in child protection and abuse investigation.