Report to:	People Scrutiny Committee
Date of meeting:	24 March 2022
By:	Director of Children’s Services
Title:	Child Exploitation and County Lines Presentation
Purpose:	To update the Committee on multi agency work on County Lines
RECOMMENDATION: 1.  The People Scrutiny Committee is recommended to consider and comment on the presentation.

1.         Background

1.1       At the October 2021 People Scrutiny Committee work planning awayday the Committee raised with the Children’s Service Department concerns about county lines activity in East Sussex.

1.2       The Committee requested that a presentation on work to disrupt county lines and respond to child exploitation be reported to the March 2023 Committee meeting to inform consideration of whether further scrutiny work on this topic is required. 

1.3       East Sussex County Council Children’s Services Department and Sussex Police will deliver a joint presentation on this at the 24 March Committee meeting.

1.4       The presentation to be delivered is attached as Appendix 1. 

 

ALISON JEFFERY

Director of Children’s Services

 

 

Contact Officer:

Vicky Finnemore

Head of Specialist Services, Children’s Services Department

vicky.finnemore@eastsussex.gov.uk