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Local partnership working In CPS Wales, Operation Lenten focused on Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) cases with vulnerable young girls from the travelling community. The Deputy CCP attended a workshop to address CSE cases across Wales. In CPS Thames and Chiltern, LSIPs considered the CPS approach to offences of stalking and harassment and the sexual assault of a child victim. CPS London is involved in a multi-agency steering group working on a specific ‘Children’s House’. CPS Surrey is implementing the recommendations of the HMIC report to improve the handling of child abuse investigations. The Director’s Legal Adviser and CPS Yorkshire and Humberside (Y&H) attended a local event ‘Out of the darkness’ organised by those who support victims in a large scale CSE case. A multi-agency ‘lessons learned’ event took place in July 2016. Y&H are involved in a number of large scale CSE cases. 78
Human trafficking and modern slavery Since April 2010, the CPS has flagged and monitored all cases of human trafficking and slavery 130 . The volume of human trafficking referrals from the police rose from 234 in 2014-15 to 246 in 2015-16, the highest volume ever recorded. 189 (76.8%), of these referrals were charged; falling from the previous year where 195 referrals (83.3%) were charged. The volume of human trafficking prosecutions completed in 2015-16 reached 295 – a rise of 108 (57.8%) from 2014-15 and the highest level ever recorded. In these cases there can be a large number of defendants per case and this may vary, by case, each year. Of the 295 defendants prosecuted, 229 defendants were male, 64 defendants were female and the gender of two defendants was not recorded. As with the previous year, 99% of gender of defendants was recorded. Where the gender of the defendant was recorded, 78.2% were male and 21.8% female, a rise in female defendants over the last two years from 29 in 2013-14 to 64 in 2015-16. The majority of defendants (79.3%) were aged 25-59 years. In respect of data extracted from the Witness Management System, 218 victims were recorded. Of all victims, 106 were female, 69 were male and the gender of 43 was not recorded. The recording of victim gender at 80% is robust enough to include gender proportions in this report. Where the gender of the victim was recorded, 60.6% of victims were female and 39.4% male. Data from the National Referral Mechanism is provided below to add further information on the gender patterns of potential victims. There was a rise in the volume of successful human trafficking outcomes from 130 in 2014-15 to 192 in 2015-16, the highest volume recorded (although there was a fall from 69.5% to 65.1% in the conviction rate over the same period). In 2015-16, 45.8%, (135), of prosecutions resulted in a guilty plea; this compares with 48.7% (91) in the previous year, with a slight fall in proportions. The volume of convictions secured after trial, rose from 39 in 2014-15 to 57 in 2015-16, (19.3%), out of all human trafficking prosecutions, and 62.0% out of all human trafficking prosecutions contested at trial (excluding mixed pleas 131 ). 63 cases (21.4%) were unsuccessful due to a prosecution being dropped; this compares with 42 cases (22.5%) in the previous year. The volume and proportion of cases where there was an unsuccessful outcome due to victim issues (includes a retraction, victim non-attendance or where the evidence of the victim does not support the case) rose from 11 (19.3%) in 2014-15 to 32 (31.1%) in 2015-16. Due to the small numbers, caution should be applied when interpreting this data. 130 Offence data is not held by defendant or outcome; hence a flag has been set up to provide outcome data by defendant. Offences flagged are ss. 57, 58, 59 and 59A Sexual Offences Act 2003 and ss.4(1), (2) and (3) Asylum and Immigration [Treatment of Claimants] Act 2004; s.71 Coroners and Justice Act 2009; ss.1 and 2 Modern Slavery Act 2015 and any conspiracy to commit any of those offences. The flag is applied from the onset of the case; this flag will remain in place even if those charges are subsequently amended or dropped. If a case commences under a different offence but is then changed to a trafficking charge, the case should be flagged at that stage. The quality and accuracy of the data therefore needs to be considered with caution. From January 2013, the accuracy of flagging was checked quarterly. 131 ‘Exclusive of mixed pleas’ are defendant cases where only ‘not guilty’ pleas are entered to all charges and a trial ensues 79
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