The Times reports that Sarah Champion, the Labour MP who quit the shadow cabinet after her comments on grooming gangs were deemed controversial has been invited to join a review panel. This panel's analysis will be made public in the autumn.
^I understand the nervousness people have around race. This is about child protection and crimes against children. You should follow the evidence regardless of who they are.“ We need to put this issue to bed for once and for all. Ethnicity might not be a determining factor but the issue needs to be investigated and the research made public.”
An investigation by The Times into child grooming in towns across the north prompted an independent inquiry. That 2014 report found that between 1997 and 2013 more than 1,400 Rotherham children were exposed to severe levels of sexual abuse and violence^
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Sarah Champion joins panel on grooming gangs
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BovaryX · 23/05/2020 06:30
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