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Protecting Children from Sexual Harm

The consultation document sought views on:

  • a proposed new grooming offence, which would make it an offence to meet or travel to meet children for the purposes of committing a sexual offence, following earlier communications
  • a proposal for Risk of Sexual Harm Offences, a new civil order aimed at protecting children from those who display inappropriate sexual behaviour towards them
  • the further use of Sexual Offence Prevention Orders, so that they can be applied to those convicted of sex offences by the court when they are sentenced

Page updated: Tuesday, February 17, 2009