Meetings with the Home Office about grooming gangs 2008 to 2013
|FoI Release, Sexual offences
Request
- Please let me know if the organization took part in any meetings that were held between 2008 and 2013, relating grooming gangs.
- Please let me know how many meetings.
- Please let me know if any of these meetings involved both the Home Office and CPS.
- How many involved both the Home Office and CPS?
- Please provided the dates of all meetings that related to grooming gangs.
Response
In the first instance we have interpreted your term “organization” to mean the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and so, I can confirm that the CPS does hold some limited recorded information falling within the scope of your request.
The CPS Policy and Strategy Directorate hold a record of a meeting taking place on 20 September 2012 between the CPS and the Deputy Children’s Commissioner. Records indicate there was a brief discussion on the Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) prosecutions in Rochdale. I can confirm that the Home Office were not present at this meeting.