Request 101004066665

Please provide the current position for the academic years 2024/2025, 2025/2026, and the current term of 2026:

1. Curriculum Strategy:
a) Does the local authority education department issue specific curriculum guidance or lesson plans to secondary schools regarding the prevention of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE), "County Lines" grooming, or trafficking for forced criminality?

b) If so, please provide a copy or title of this guidance.

2. Third-Party Deliveries:
How many secondary schools within the local authority area recorded inputs, assemblies, or workshops delivered by external specialist charities or Police Scotland specifically focusing on CCE, grooming into gangs, or drug running networks?

3. Staff Training:
What guidance, briefings, or training resources are made available to high school teaching staff within your authority to assist them in identifying the indicators of CCE?

4. Data Tracking:
Does the education department centrally record or track instances where a pupil has been identified as being at risk of, or subject to, extra-familial child criminal exploitation or "cuckooing"?
a) If a statistical category exists for this, please provide the total number of pupils flagged under this category, broken down by academic year.