A CHILD sexual exploitation report produced by a group accused of being linked to radical Islam has sat on council shelves without action for more than a year, it emerged yesterday.

Oxfordshire County Council said the document was a “scoping study” done in East Oxford and Banbury of how to prevent child sexual exploitation.

It was carried out by Street UK in late 2013 and focused on engaging young people, their families and mosques in the South East Asian community, the council said.

The local authority said that although it paid £9,000 for the study, it had still not been signed off and Street UK has undertaken no further work for it.

Street UK representative Alyas Karmani said claims his group was linked to extremism had “no basis whatsoever”. And he called on the council to make the sexual exploitation document public.


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Mr Karmani added that the report made recommendations on how to prevent people in the Islamic community becoming involved in sexual exploitation. He said: “We want [the report] to be published, but it is the intellectual property of the council. It is a comprehensive report of about 50,000 words.”

Last night council spokesman Paul Smith said: “Talks have taken place about potential further work. For any such further work to progress, the council would clearly need to be convinced of the continued viability of Street UK as an organisation.”

The group’s report came in the wake of Operation Bullfinch, launched by Thames Valley Police in 2011 to target men abusing young girls.

The delay in publication emerged after The Sunday Telegraph alleged that Street UK had links with extremist figures. It claimed the group paid for the publication of “ultra-literal” booklets about Islam and published articles by radical clerics.

The allegations were denied by Mr Karmani.