Consultation on (official)Inquiry into Grooming Gangs

[Imnobody4]

Just sharing this , haven't gone into detail. It's from Clare Adams. Deadline
This consultation survey will close at 23:59 on Friday 6th March.
https://x.com/i/status/2022021064377667674

🚨I’ve shared the consultation survey for the draft Terms of Reference of the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs.🚨

This is not a general feedback form. It asks you a series of questions about what the Inquiry will and will not examine. The wording of these Terms of Reference will shape the scope of the Inquiry for years.

Before completing it, read the Terms of Reference properly. Scrutinise them. Identify omissions and weaknesses, particularly around institutional failures, patterns of offending, and whether culture, religion and ethnicity influenced responses.

If you are a professional, respond with care and precision.
If you are a survivor or victim, speak your truth.
If you are a family member, ensure the Inquiry recognises the ripple effect on families and communities.

Safeguarding must apply equally. Some communities were protected. Others were not. That disparity needs honest examination.

For those not on twitter the link is https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/IndependentInquiryintoGroomingGangs-ToRConsultation/

And I think this is the official Government announcement of the time limited survey https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-inquiry-into-grooming-gangs-consultation-privacy-notice/consultation-privacy-notice-draft-terms-of-reference

Thanks for sharing @Imnobody4

From Maggie Oliver: (I've copied in full )

https://x.com/i/status/2023004599003574356

The draft Terms of Reference for this new ‘national enquiry’ demanded by @Casey_Review last summer into grooming gangs have now been published.

We have summarised the key points for ease below, but I include the link so you can read them in full.

Baroness Anne Longfield has been selected to chair this enquiry, and I met her for the first time about 4 weeks ago in London where we had a very full discussion around this new enquiry. I shared my thoughts with her, and for anyone who knows me you will also know that I was as honest and direct as I could be. I have been down this road too many times before to be blindly trusting of anyone in authority any more, but I also am always willing to share my knowledge, experience and understanding of this subject based on over 20 years of experience and give people the benefit of the doubt until they let me down. The same applies here…..

Next Friday we at @TMOFCharity The Maggie Oliver Foundation have arranged for about 25 of our ‘umbrella group’ of victims/survivors of these gangs (and families) to meet with the chair in Manchester. They are coming from all around the country and we will be there to ensure they are supported throughout, that they are not isolated, that they fully understand what is going on and that they can contribute their opinions/wishes as to what they want this enquiry to cover, which areas it must focus on, and what is needed to bring change and accountability for those in high places who have failed them for so long.

I personally put many years of my own life into working with, and initially believing in, the original ‘National enquiry’ led by Alexis Jay. I have been very outspoken over the years since in saying I felt then (and still feel now) that the ‘Organised Networks’ strand of IICSA (in which I was granted non institutional core participant status, which was ultimately pointless!) was nothing but a total whitewash and a cover up. I said it at the time, and had fought fiercely even before it began as I could see clearly that it was being driven not be truth, but by political motivations to conceal the real horror. I know those horrors, and have been listening to countless almost identical stories for 20 years now, every one as harrowing as the last!

Areas were very cynically and deliberately chosen where grooming gangs actually didn’t operate, chief police officers and council leaders paraded out one after another and given a platform to spout off how great they were doing now, and people like survivors/victims and independent voices like mine were silenced and totally blocked out.

So as I said to Anne Longfield very honestly in London, forgive me for not trusting blindly…. I always hope for the best but expect the worst these days.

But I know one thing. My team and I will fight with every breath in our body to ensure the victims we support are heard, have a voice, and for this ‘new enquiry’ to be very different from the last one. We’re STILL waiting for the 20 recommendations from that enquiry to be implemented over 3 years later (hence our fight re Judicial Review)

I know one thing though. If we don’t do our very best to help(as I did on IICSA) then we most certainly have no right to call it out later if it doesn’t deliver change and accountability.

Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs: draft terms of reference - GOV.UK

Fantastic. I hope they’re listening this time.

I think we should paste that every time someone says “there’s already been an inquiry”.

How long is it going to take until the establishment will really look at the truth honestly? The lot of them should be sacked. We're already months on from a promise of an enquiry. I said on another thread, I think they plan to cover up and if they can't do that kick the can down the road endlessly and without accountability.

Maggie Oliver is a phenomenal woman, and she's provided real practical help to survivors (often when the NHS has not), neverthless the fact she's been trying to whistleblow on this for TWENTY YEARS and yet no one has yet lost their job over it all yet tells you many things.

The Maggie Oliver Foundation is a great charity to support if anyone feels they want to. She's a better woman than me if she isn't massively cynical at this point.

Thanks, OP.