It is one of the grimmest of crimes - its victims among the most vulnerable, but often seen as criminals themselves. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
Exclusive figures seen by this programme, give a sense of the scale of the devastation caused by criminal exploitation: 47 children killed or seriously harmed in two years.
We have been speaking to the mother of one 14-year-old boy shot dead three years ago, who says it must be made a priority.
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30 июл 2020