Post by Red Rackham on Jul 13, 2023 16:22:55 GMT
Last April Telford MP Lucy Allen welcomed the Prime Minister's renewed focus on tackling Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and grooming gangs. link She said a new set of measures to protect women and girls from sexual abuse across the country have been announced with an overhaul of the policing and institutional response to grooming gangs which include:
• Launching a police-led Grooming Gangs Taskforce of specialist police and National Crime Agency experts to disrupt grooming gangs and bring perpetrators to justice.
• Introducing mandatory reporting for professionals in safeguarding roles, such as teachers and social workers, so they are legally obliged to report concerns about child grooming.
• Members of grooming gangs will now be subjected to the toughest sentencing possible, with new legislation being put forward that makes being a member an aggravating factor when considering their sentencing.
• Monitoring the ethnicity of grooming gang suspects, because political correctness should never get in the way of keeping girls safe.
• Relaunching a national hotline for whistleblowers and victims, so people have confidence there is a direct avenue to report grooming gangs and their concerns will be properly followed up on.
Common sense I would have thought, especially point 4.
However, I just listened to Lucy Allen being interviewed and she is very frustrated at the slow pace of progress in Telford (where 1000 young girls were victims of grooming gangs) She accused the Labour controlled council of not taking the issue of grooming gangs seriously. And I have to say, hands up anyone who's surprised. See below...
• Launching a police-led Grooming Gangs Taskforce of specialist police and National Crime Agency experts to disrupt grooming gangs and bring perpetrators to justice.
• Introducing mandatory reporting for professionals in safeguarding roles, such as teachers and social workers, so they are legally obliged to report concerns about child grooming.
• Members of grooming gangs will now be subjected to the toughest sentencing possible, with new legislation being put forward that makes being a member an aggravating factor when considering their sentencing.
• Monitoring the ethnicity of grooming gang suspects, because political correctness should never get in the way of keeping girls safe.
• Relaunching a national hotline for whistleblowers and victims, so people have confidence there is a direct avenue to report grooming gangs and their concerns will be properly followed up on.
Common sense I would have thought, especially point 4.
However, I just listened to Lucy Allen being interviewed and she is very frustrated at the slow pace of progress in Telford (where 1000 young girls were victims of grooming gangs) She accused the Labour controlled council of not taking the issue of grooming gangs seriously. And I have to say, hands up anyone who's surprised. See below...
