A Blackburn councillor is calling for a national inquiry into grooming gangs to compel witnesses to give evidence. The motion follows similar calls in Parliament and highlights the issue's national scope.
A councillor is calling for a grooming gang enquiry to 'compel witnesses to give evidence'. Blackburn with Darwen Council's Conservative group tabled a motion for debate on the issue of gangs grooming young women and girls at the authority’s Council Forum meeting on Thursday.
The issue was thrust into the spotlight by X’s billionaire owner Elon Musk, and latched onto by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Reform UK. The Tory motion proposed by Darwen South’s Cllr Kevin Connor and seconded by Livesey with Pleasington’s Cllr Paul Marrow says: “This council views some of the national debate around child sexual grooming by exploitation gangs to be diverting attention away from the appalling nature of the crimes committed and the trauma experienced by the victims.
"The response from the Home Office was that it was down to the council to commission such an inquiry.
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