NEWS: There has been encouraging progress but “significant challenges” remain in how police tackle child sexual exploitation and grooming gangs, a watchdog has said. His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services said in a new progress report that issues over data accuracy and co-ordination nationally risk weakening the policing response in efforts to crack down on group-based child sexual exploitation. Inspectors said more than half of police forces still fail to include