Rape gangs. Why does the Home Office minister not want a national public enquiry?

The government is going to introduce mandatory reporting with criminal sanctions for failure.

What are the arguments against it? The last government wanted to water it down. Presumably there were some legitimate concerns?
 
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The right wing are going after Starmer…..but he was the one making changes:

What were the Tories doing?

“Keir Starmer: I would deal with that across the organisation because one of the things we have worked on in the last four years a lot is our violence against women and girls strategy. We have put in place specialist prosecutors. We have rape and serious sexual assault units in each of our areas, and you can only be in that unit if you have had specialist training because we realised that we needed that for ourselves. We have also tried to encourage the police to come to us early so that although we have no power of direction over them, we can ask them to look at certain lines of investigation rather than waiting, as happened, in fact, in the Rochdale case, to the very end of the police investigation. At the end of perhaps a single allegation the file comes to us months after the event. If they come early and we do our job properly, then I think that is a recipe for better success in the future. Part of the point of the network then is that while we have 13 teams of specialists across the country, what I want to make sure is that the journey that the North West has been through and the lessons that we have learnt with them are learnt simultaneously by all of our teams. What I now expect is if there is a team in Derby, Nottingham, wherever it is, that has a case, through that network they share experience with the team that has just succeeded in Rochdale, so that we are as joined up as we can be as an organisation. I accept that that was not the situation a number of years ago, but they are some of the steps we have taken to try to put that right now”

 

DPP Keir Starmer issues tough new guidelines for child sex cases aimed at securing more convictions​


New guidelines for dealing with child sex abuse cases published today will mark “the most fundamental attitude shift” in the criminal justice system in a generation, the Director of Public Prosecutions has claimed.

Keir Starmer said the finalised advice would help prosecutors battle the myths and stereotypes about victims of sex abuse and ensure more convictions.

The guidelines cover how victims should be treated and how a case should be built and presented. They were drawn up after a number of high profile and controversial sex crime cases including the abuse gangs that operated in Rochdale and Oxford.

 
The lies of the Conservatives: spreading doctored video of Keir Starmer in regards to grooming gangs

“Never trust a Tory” is advice that stands the trust of time

“The three Tory MPs – Nadine Dorries, Lucy Allan and Maria Caulfield – who shared the fake footage on Twitter all deleted it, before being reprimanded by the Conservative Party.”

 
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Tweet by Nazir Ofzal 2021:

Once again, it is being suggested that Keir Starmer personally failed the victims of Jimmy Savile & so called grooming gangs

He Did Not
He had no decision making role in Savile
He supported me 100% in bringing prosecutions against so called groomers when others didn’tI was there
 
2014: report finds Conservative govt to blame for failings in grooming gangs

Rotherham’s sex abuse scandal reveals failure at the heart of government​

A report by Prof Alexis Jay has exposed shocking abuse and exploitation of 1,400 children as young as 11, over 16 years, in Rotherham, describing 'blatant' collective failures of the care system, police and local politicians. A leading social worker holds the government to account.

 
Jan 2025: the Conservative Party is calling for a public enquiry into grooming gangs

Feb 2021: the Conservative Govt refused to release official research on the characteristics of grooming gangs, claiming it is not in the “public interest”.


What a bunch of forking hypocrites

Grooming gang review kept secret as Home Office claims releasing findings ‘not in public interest​


 
You can always tell when Notch has been triggered. He makes post after post after post. He's not the same Notch as when I first joined up here - that shortage of tomatoes must have really got to him…
And if you ignore his posts he keeps firing them out…
 
And if you ignore his posts he keeps firing them out…
And he becomes ever more aggressive and desperate in an effort to garner a response - any response so he can get the needy assurance that he matters - in his head anyway.
 
You can always tell when Notch has been triggered. He makes post after post after post. He's not the same Notch as when I first joined up here - that shortage of tomatoes must have really got to him…
Theres a lot of irony in there.

Definitely not the same Mottie as it was.
 
The government is going to introduce mandatory reporting with criminal sanctions for failure.

What are the arguments against it? The last government wanted to water it down. Presumably there were some legitimate concerns?
What does reporting mean? Evidence that will hold up in a court of law? Third hand gossip, a gut feeling, tittle tattle at the photocopier? Staff room chatter? And what protections for those who report in good faith but who get it wrong or are sacked? Who do you report it to, social services, the police? They are the ones who did nothing for so long.
 
What does reporting mean? Evidence that will hold up in a court of law? Third hand gossip, a gut feeling, tittle tattle at the photocopier? Staff room chatter? And what protections for those who report in good faith but who get it wrong or are sacked? Who do you report it to, social services, the police? They are the ones who did nothing for so long.

It sounds like the sort of thing which might have unintended consequences.
 
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