Liberal Democrat candidate for Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s new Police and Crime Commissioner David Goodall backs Barnardo’s Cut Them Free campaign.
In Hampshire and Isle of Wight the Constabulary’s Public Protection Department is responsible for investigating incidents of child abuse, vulnerable adult abuse, safeguarding vulnerable people and working with other agencies to manage the supervision of offenders in our community using Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).
There are three teams based in the West, East and North of the county. In addition, there is a Central Referral Unit based at Southern Support and Training Headquarters at Netley, near Southampton. A Detective Chief Inspector, as recommended by Barnardo’s, leads each of these teams.
In addition, Hampshire Constabulary’s teams have the following specialist groups within them, also as Barnardo’s recommend:
Announcing his today support for UK children’s charity Barnardo’s Cut Them Free campaignLiberal Democrat candidate for Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s new Police and Crime Commissioner David Goodall said
And he added:-
Pledging to work with the Hampshire force to help make child sexual exploitation in Hampshire and Isle of Wight a thing of the past David Goodall said:
Barnardo’s have developed an anti-child sexual exploitation checklist of seven ‘achievable tasks’ for police forces in England and Wales, highlighting key improvements that would help identify and support victims who have been abused, protect young people at risk and facilitate the prosecution of abusers. Barnardo’s anti child sexual exploitation checklist is as follows:-
Welcoming David Goodall’s support, Barnardo’s South East Director, Michelle Lee Izu said:
A fuller description Barnardo’s campaign to cut children free can be found at:-
www.barnardos.org.uk/cutthemfree