Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has stated her openness to a national inquiry into grooming gangs if victims request it.
Jess Phillips has said 'nothing is off the table' when dealing with the grooming gangs scandal - including a new national inquiry if victims want one. The safeguarding minister told Sky's political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that she would listen to victims on a new panel that was announced by the government this week. 'Nothing is off the table,' she said.
'And if the victims come forward to me in this victims panel and they say, 'actually, we think there needs to be a national inquiry into this', I'll listen to them.' Her comments come days after it emerged she had rejected calls from Oldham Council to hold a government inquiry into grooming gangs in the town, and said the council should commission one instead. That has led to tech billionaire Elon Musk attacking her and Sir Keir Starmer for not holding a national inquiry and accusing the prime minister of being 'complicit' in the abuse. Professor Alexis Jay finished an eight-year national inquiry into child sexual abuse in 2022 and set out recommendations for the government. The Conservatives tabled an amendment to the Children's Safeguarding and Schools Bill on Wednesday to require a statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. However, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told Sky News the Tories 'don't care about children' as the amendment could prevent the entire bill from going forward. She said: 'The measures that I'm setting out today and the legislation in many ways go further because it puts a requirement on all councils to have teams working to keep children safe. 'And the bandwagon jumpers that have come along in recent days, they don't care about children, they don't care about making sure that we stop this and we take action. 'They had years to do it and they didn't do i
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