The 2025 Casey Report, led by Baroness Louise Casey, is a landmark call to action for policing and child protection in the UK. It outlines systemic failures in the response to child sexual exploitation (CSE) and introduces 12 specific recommendations for reform.
At Mark43, we believe that technology should empower public safety organisations to meet both their mission and their statutory obligations. Our Records Management System (RMS) is designed to support frontline policing, inter-agency coordination, and robust safeguarding practices. While some Casey Report recommendations focus on policy or legislative reform, Mark43 offers the most advanced technology solution available to help police forces operationalise and uphold these safeguarding reforms. Our platform is purpose-built to support the core operational changes recommended — from joint investigations and mandatory data collection to information sharing, oversight, and accountability.
Recommendation-by-Recommendation: How Mark43 Helps
Recommendation 1: Statutory duty for joint investigations between policing and safeguarding agencies
Mark43 supports this recommendation by enabling secure, multi-agency workflows with role-based access, real-time collaboration, and complete audit trails. This creates an operational environment where joint investigations can take place seamlessly and in compliance with statutory obligations.
Recommendation 2: Mandatory data collection and recording (e.g., ethnicity, history)
Mark43 RMS allows forces to set mandatory and structured data fields, ensuring consistent capture of vital information such as suspect characteristics, prior history, and risk indicators. This reduces information gaps and strengthens investigative insight.
Recommendation 3: National safeguarding framework and consistent definitions
While the framework itself must come from government or policing bodies, Mark43 is designed to support it once adopted. Customisable fields, case types, and taxonomies can be easily aligned with standardised national definitions of CSE and related safeguarding terms.
Recommendation 4: Unique child identifier across agencies
Mark43 is future-ready to integrate with a national or regional unique child identifier system, once it is developed. This capability will allow records to be reliably linked across cases, locations, and agencies, improving long-term protection and visibility.
Recommendation 5: Mandatory information sharing between police and safeguarding partners
Mark43 enables real-time, secure information sharing through role-based permissions and case visibility for authorised users across multiple agencies. This helps ensure that no critical piece of information is missed in active safeguarding efforts. Mark43 empowers external partners and agencies to create their own API’s with use of Mark43’s developer site, thereby increasing interoperability.
Recommendation 6: CSE-specific case flagging and triage processes
The platform supports custom case flags, triage workflows, and automated alerts, helping officers and safeguarding teams prioritise high-risk cases and escalate them appropriately.
Recommendation 7: Multi-agency dashboards for oversight and governance
Mark43 offers powerful analytics dashboards that track CSE cases, status updates, safeguarding KPIs, and outcomes across time and jurisdictions. These can be used by leadership and safeguarding boards for oversight and resource allocation.
Recommendation 8: National training standards for CSE investigation
Mark43 supports operational learning by embedding prompts, guidance, and best-practice workflows into the user interface. This helps reinforce consistent investigation standards in line with policy.
Recommendation 9: Accountability mechanisms to track compliance
Mark43 provides full auditability — every case action is timestamped, traceable, and reportable. Forces can monitor activity against CSE protocols and produce reports for inspectors, boards, and parliamentary review quickly and reliably.
Recommendation 10: Victim and survivor empowerment through better communication
Mark43 provides the very best in victim care reporting, supporting case officers in tracking contact, support referrals, and consent. Ensuring a trauma-informed approach to victims, and providing an increased public confidence in policing.
Recommendation 11: Better data collection to support long-term analysis
Mark43 RMS enables analysts to run cross-case searches, link suspects and victims, and identify patterns — such as repeat victimisation or geographic clustering. Data exports can support long-term prevention strategies and academic research.
Recommendation 12: Making CSE a national policing priority
Technology alone cannot set national priorities — but it can support them. Mark43 enables standardised reporting and operational visibility that helps local forces align with national directives and oversight expectations.
Our Commitment
Modern safeguarding is a shared responsibility. Mark43’s role is to provide the secure, scalable infrastructure that enables public safety agencies to respond decisively, transparently, and collaboratively. We’re proud to work with forward-thinking UK forces — including Cumbria Constabulary — to deliver tools that meet the demands of today and the requirements of tomorrow.
