Council children’s services should take a more active approach to combating child sexual abuse (CSA), according to a new report that has found at least 15% of girls and 5% of boys experience some form of sexual abuse before the age of 16.
Those who had lived in a care home were nearly four times as likely to have experienced CSA than those who had not.
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