Ceop

A Home Office spokesman said Ceop, which is affiliated to the Serious Organised Crime

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Investigators from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre Ceop spent six months gathering intelligence and data covering the period of March 2008 to January 2011.

Child exploitation agency reveals extent of sexual abuse 2011

"But I do think that some of Jim's points about the special nature of Ceop, and how it will be difficult to preserve that in a closer, police arrangement, have some validity."

Child online safety chief Jim Gamble to leave next month Jemima Kiss 2010

Gamble reportedly stood down in protest at the Government's decision to merge Ceop into a new National Crime Agency, rather than granting it 'non-departmental public body' status, which would have given it more autonomy.

Child online safety chief Jim Gamble to leave next month Jemima Kiss 2010

A review of Ceop by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in 2008, obtained by the Guardian, highlighted tensions between Ceop and particularly sectors of industry.

Child online safety chief Jim Gamble to leave next month Jemima Kiss 2010

The findings, to be published on Wednesday, are expected to reveal that the perpetrators were Asian in 20% of the cases examined, but it is understood that Ceop's head, Peter Davies, will say that the research does not show that child grooming can be associated with any particular ethnic group.

Child exploitation agency reveals extent of sexual abuse 2011

• Children's commissioner Maggie Atkinson, who goes into bat in defence of Ceop, the online child protection agency whose independence is under threat.

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It is understood that Ceop will reveal that 2,083 child victims of sexual exploitation were identified in the study.

Child exploitation agency reveals extent of sexual abuse 2011

The National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People (NWG) helped 2,894 children last year and a 2010 report from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), recorded a 16% increase in reports of sexual exploitation from 5,411 in 2008 to 6,291 in 2010.

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Enver Solomon, head of policy at the Children's Society, which provided evidence to Ceop, said: This is obviously disproportionate to the population, but the problem here is that the data is incomplete and poorly recorded so there are questions about the validity and accuracy of the data.

Child exploitation agency reveals extent of sexual abuse 2011