His comments came the morning after MPs voted against a call for a new inquiry
Andy Burnham ‘would not be opposed’ to a new national inquiry into grooming gangs the day after a Conservative bid to set one up failed.
In Greater Manchester, the mayor launched a review into systematic child sexual abuse shortly after taking office in 2017. It has produced ‘blistering’ reports on the authorities’ response in Oldham, Manchester, and Rochdale. “The review I instigated was not a public inquiry,” Mr Burnham told BBC Radio Manchester on Thursday . “People were not required to give evidence.
The last Conservative government received the final report from the latest inquiry into grooming, called the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse, in 2022. Ministers then did not implement its 20 recommendations before they left office.
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