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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Police in England and Wales identify 287 child sexual exploitation cases for review

Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper told the committee she was very concerned by evidence of increasing extremism among young people. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Police forces in England and Wales have identified a further 287 outstanding cases of alleged child sexual exploitation by rape gangs, Yvette Cooper has disclosed.

The home secretary said the government was planning to wipe the convictions of grooming victims prosecuted over soliciting for prostitution, after concerns that children had been criminalised by the authorities.

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