FOI Request - Organised Crime

Request 101003946033

1. Children identified as at risk of or victims of exploitation.

For each of the following categories, please provide the number of individual children recorded in each financial year:

a) Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
b) Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
c) Both CCE and CSE

Please provide this data for each of the following financial years:
• 2019/20
• 2020/21
• 2021/22
• 2022/23
• 2023/24
• 2024/25
• 2025/26

2. Exploitation flags, categories, or indicators used

Please confirm whether your children’s services case management system contains any of the following structured fields/flags (tick yes/no and provide field names if possible):

a) Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) flag/marker
b) Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) flag/marker
c) Modern slavery / trafficking flag
d) County Lines flag
e) Gang association flag
f) Organised crime group (OCG) involvement flag
g) Missing episodes linked to exploitation marker
h) “Contextual safeguarding” indicator
i) Exploitation risk assessment score/level (e.g. low/medium/high)

If yes, please provide the names of the relevant fields/categories as they appear in your system.

3. Gang / organised crime involvement

Where recorded, for each year listed above, please provide the number of children identified as:

a) Exploited by or associated with a gang
b) Exploited by or associated with an organised criminal group (OCG)
c) Exploited through county lines activity

If you do not record this information in a structured way, please state this.

4. Location / context of exploitation

If your records contain structured data on the setting/context of exploitation, please provide the number of children (per year) where exploitation was recorded as occurring in any of the following contexts:

a) Online exploitation
b) Exploitation in public places (parks, streets, shopping areas etc.)
c) Exploitation in private addresses (including “trap houses”)
d) Hotel / temporary accommodation exploitation
e) School-related exploitation / PRU
f) Care placement-related exploitation (including residential care)

If your authority uses different categories, please provide your closest equivalents.

5. Gender breakdown (if available)

For each year above, please provide a breakdown (for CCE, CSE, and both) by:

a) Sex or gender (as recorded)

6. Age breakdown (if available)

a) Age group (e.g. under 10 / 10–12 / 13–15 / 16–17, or your nearest available)

Response 23-03-2026

1. 2019/20: <5* on CP REG (<5* CCE and <5* CSE). In 2019 concerns not recorded as CCE at IRD or CSE
• 2020/21: 0 on CP Reg CCE or CSE. In 2020 concerns not recorded as CCE at IRD or CSE
• 2021/22: 0 on CP Reg CCE or CSE. In 2021 concerns not recorded as CCE at IRD or CSE
• 2022/23: 0 on CP Reg CCE or CSE. In 2022 concerns not recorded as CCE at IRD or CSE
• 2023/24: 0 on CP Reg CCE or CSE. In 2023 <5* CCE identified at IRD and 11 CSE identified at IRD.
• 2024/25: <5* on CP REG (CCE). In 2024 16 CSE identified at IRD and <5* CCE identified at IRD <5* County Lines identified at IRD
• 2025/26: <5* on CP REG (CCE). In 2025 8 CCE identified at IRD and <5* CSE identified at IRD.

* Numbers of 5 or fewer have been redacted, as low numbers may lead to the identification of individuals. This information is therefore exempt under Section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Personal Information

2. No flags exist on our system.

3. This information is not recorded in a structured way. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

4. This information is not recorded in a structured way. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

5.
2023: CSE M = 0; CSE F = 11; CCE M = <5*; CCE F = 0
2024: CSE M = <5*; CSE F = 14; CCE M = <5*; CCE F = 0
2025: CSE M = <5*; CSE F = <5*; CCE M = 6; CCE F =<5*

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FOI Request - Organised Crime

Request 101003946033

Response 23-03-2026

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