Child Criminal Exploitation (No. 2) Bill

The Child Criminal Exploitation (No. 2) Bill aims to strengthen legal protections and enforcement measures against the criminal exploitation of children in the UK. It likely introduces new offences, enhanced sentencing guidelines, and improved safeguarding procedures for identifying and protecting children involved in gang activity, drug trafficking, and other criminal networks. The bill seeks to treat exploited children primarily as victims rather than perpetrators, while giving law enforcement and child protection agencies better tools to intervene and prosecute exploiters.