Expert help in fight against sexual grooming

Family support workers from Rochdale Borough Council have been looking at how a team of pioneering experts in tackling child sexual exploitation can help them in the fight against sexual grooming of girls.

Engage – a partnership involving police and council – is seen nationally as a template for best practice in tackling the problem.

Rochdale’s version of the team – named Sunrise – have sent family support workers to look at how Engage works.

Speaking to the Lancashire Telegraph, a spokesman for Rochdale Borough Council said: “We recently sent three of our family support workers from our own multi-disciplinary team called Sunrise to look at Engage’s work in Blackburn. Their work is recognised nationally as ground breaking.”