- Oct 17, 2008
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Why, when this is a national issue? The Tories did f*** all to address this in any serious way, it’s given ammunition to the far right. Surely in the interest of transparency and learning lessons about safeguarding following the hundreds of convictions of child sexual abusers perpetrated by gangs in Oldham, Rochdale, Bristol, Telford, Huddersfield and Rotherham (where victims numbered over 1,400 alone), a public inquiry is in the national interest.There was an inquiry in 2022 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...e-independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-abuse
Jess Phillips asked the council to commission a local inquiry, rather than national one