Yvette Cooper promised to implement the key recommendation from Professor Alexis Jay's child sexual abuse inquiry after Sir Keir Starmer faced down calls from Elon Musk, the Tories and Reform UK for a new investigation into paedophile grooming gangs. Professionals who work with children will face criminal sanctions if they fail to report claims of sexual abuse, the home secretary has announced. 

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Maggie Oliver, a former Greater Manchester police detective who resigned in 2012 over poor handling of abuse cases in Rochdale, told BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight that the home secretary’s statement on child abuse was “a bit of a kneejerk reaction to international horror at what has happened in our country”. The subject of grooming […]

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The United Kingdom has long tried to bury its history of grooming gangs, which have sexually abused thousands of young girls over several decades.

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Robert Jenrick defended the Tories' record on bringing justice to victims of the grooming gang scandal while they were in power.

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced fresh measures to crack down on child sexual exploitation - but stopped short of approving a public inquiry following demands by the Tories and Elon Musk.

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Failure to report child sex abuse to become criminal offence amid grooming gangs row

The British Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said today that the United Kingdom will tighten the law on the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
In an intervention in the House of Commons, the Minister of the Interior stated that the British government will make it a crime, with “professional and criminal” sanctions, to not report or cover up any case of sexual abuse of children.
This decision comes after the minister was criticized in recen…

A ministra do Interior britânica, Yvette Cooper, afirmou hoje que o Reino Unido vai endurecer a lei sobre o abuso e a exploração sexual de crianças.
Numa intervenção na Câmara dos Comuns, a Ministra do Interior afirmou que o governo britânico vai tornar crime, com sanções "profissionais e criminais", a não-denúncia ou o encobrimento de qualquer caso de abuso sexual de crianças.
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Reino Unido vai endurecer legislação sobre casos de abuso sexual de crianças

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has defended her decision not to launch a national inquiry into child sexual abuse, as she faced MPs in the Commons ...

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Home Secretary defends decision not to launch national grooming inquiry

The author of a landmark report into child sexual exploitation in the UK has warned that calls for a further inquiry into grooming gangs are “distracting from the issues”.Professor Alexis Jay said that people should “just get on” with implementing the 20 recommendations in her report, which was published in 2022 following a seven-year inquiry.“We have learned a lot from those reviews that have already been undertaken. Locally people need to step…

Failure to report child sex abuse to become criminal offence amid grooming gangs row

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