BRADFORD Council leaders will discuss the scale of Child Sexual Exploitation in Bradford at a meeting on Tuesday.

The decision making Executive board will receive an update from police and children's service workers on work that has been done to tackle grooming since January.

The issue was discussed by the Council's Children's Services Scrutiny Committee last month, but on Tuesday the Executive will be given more details about the backgrounds of suspected offenders.

The scrutiny committee was told by police that roughly 63 per cent offenders identified in the past year were of Pakistani origin, a figure the committee described as "shocking." They were told that these figures referred to both recent and historic cases.

An updated version of the report, which will be presented to the Executive on Tuesday, also includes data on offences that have happened in the past 12 months. In these cases, 39 per cent of suspects are Pakistani, 39 per cent are White British and eight per cent are Black Caribbean. Forty two per cent are in their 20s and 20 per cent are under 19.

Between April 2017 and the end of August 2018 there have been 435 CSE offences flagged to police. 299 of these were classed as recent offences and 136 were non-recent offences.

Members will also be told that there is a rise in cyber related grooming, although there was currently a "lack of data" to determine the extent of the problem.

The report recommends the Council establish a process to ensure the accurate recording and monitoring of those at risk of trafficking, find a way to more accurately record cyber related grooming and to work to understand if there is a correlation between the number of residential care homes in each area of the city and the number of children at risk of CSE.

The Executive meets at 10.30am in City Hall.