The crackdown follows scandals in which the organised sexual exploitation of thousands of children in towns including Rotherham, Telford and Rochdale went unchecked.
The Home Secretary has been warned against criminalising a generation as LBC hears of a 'significant' rise in the number of young people committing child sexual abuse.
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