CSE

"We have several ongoing victim-focused, non-recent CSE investigations being led by specialist investigators, which have led to over 100 arrests. Time is no barrier to action."

However, a CSE spokeswoman adds that the organisation still recommends people seek expert advice.

Ms Poultney said the force worked with all agencies to share information and create profiles to identify and record emerging CSE trends, with versions of those profiles also made public to improve transparency.

Chief Constable Stephen Watson said the handling of CSE across Greater Manchester had been "overhauled since the early-2000s to ensure that victims and survivors are cared for and receive the expected level of service".

When I contact Maria Bakaroudis, UNFPA's CSE specialist for east and southern Africa, for comment, she says she is not keen to talk about the "opposition", as she refers to FWI.