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Force For Change: Timeline

Everyone at The Maggie Oliver Foundation is determined that survivors’ voices will be heard. It is only through sharing the realities of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation that we can make people listen.

Alongside the support we offer through our emotional and advocacy services, Maggie and The Maggie Oliver Foundation (TMOF) continue to shine a national spotlight on the issue of child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) - particularly the ongoing failures of authorities to respond effectively.

Below you can view the full time of the work to date The Maggie Oliver Foundation has worked on or click on related stories for media articles from our Force for Change section.

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winning group

winning group

2026

TMOF Winners of The Northern Power Women Awards

TMOF very proud to win The Micro Organisation Award at the “Northern Power Women Awards”.

soliciotrs look at work

soliciotrs look at work

2026

New Statutory National Enquiry into Grooming Gangs

Actively involved in shaping the demands from the new Statutory National Enquiry into Grooming Gangs by attending meetings with Baroness Anne Longfield and then taking an ‘umbrella group’ of over 2 dozen survivors (and growing) to share their experiences with the panel and ensuring their voices/our voices were central to the final Terms of Reference.

Contrarian award

Contrarian award

2025/26

‘Historic Win in The High Court’. Judicial Review

Historic win at The High Court in March 2026. TMOF were granted leave by the judge to take the Government to a full Judicial Review for their failure to implement the recommendations of IICSA, on the grounds of ‘legitimate expectation’.

casey audit

casey audit

2025/26

The Casey Audit Key Contributor

Key contributor in ‘The Casey Audit’, where we met with Baroness Louise Casey several times and then ensured survivors voices were at the centre of her report. TMOF were the only charity credited in the executive summary of the final report.

Maggie Oliver with solicitors

Maggie Oliver with solicitors

2025/26

Judicial Review

Challenging Government Inaction by becoming the ONLY voice in the country legally demanding systemic change. Began our legal challenge against the Government, instigating a Judicial Review for their failure to implement the 20 recommendations of IICSA almost 4 years after their publication.

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groomed thumbnail

2023/25

Key Contributors on Channel 4 ‘Groomed: A National Scandal

Collaborated closely on Channel 4 documentary ‘Groomed: A National Scandal’ for 2 years, supporting 3 of our survivors as they told their stories publicly for the first time.

Contrarian award

Contrarian award

2024

Awarded The 2024 Contrarian Award

Maggie was awarded the 2024 Contrarian Award for demonstrating ‘Independence, Courage and Sacrifice’, hugely valued by Maggie who said it was a great honour.

the baird review

the baird review

2024

Consultants on ITV Coronation Street

We worked closely as Consultants with ITV on a Coronation Street high profile storyline around grooming and sexual exploitation.

the baird review

the baird review

2023/24

The Baird Review

The Baird Review was instigated by TMOF when we identified numerous cases of the unlawful arrests and strip searching of vulnerable women by GMP and went to Andy Burnham with our evidence. He order an independent review, and the findings reported ‘Barbaric’ treatment of vulnerable women in custody, which led to GMP committing to the banning of all ‘welfare strip searches’.

review cover

review cover

2024

Publication of The Rochdale Independent Assurance Review

Publication of the damning Independant Assurance Review into Child Sexual Abuse in Rochdale. Maggie worked closely with the Review team on this for 7 years following its setting up by Andy Burnham.

meeting Rishi Sunak

meeting Rishi Sunak

2023

3 Grooming Gang Survivors meet the Prime Minister

TMOF took 3 survivors of ‘Grooming Gangs’ to meet the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman to share their experiences of abuse and how the police and social services failed them.

back of police officer

back of police officer

2022

Hull Grooming Gang Case Reopened

We successfully fought and achieved the reopening of a horrific Grooming gang case in Hull, where several victims had approached TMOF in despair after their case had been closed by police. We had taken their cases to Sky and worked closely with them for months to publicly expose the horrors of this case. After the expose Humberside police finally reopened the case.

2021

Successfully won the Action against GMP for Rochdale Survivors

After a 10 year legal battle , we successfully won the action against GMP in regards to several Rochdale grooming gang victims after a 10 year legal battle. GMP paid ‘substantial damages’ and publicly apologised, admitting ‘Borderline Incompetence’ in their handling of this case, which they previously claimed had been a ‘fantastic result’.

law figure

law figure

2021

National Recognition and Influence

Contributed to the report by The Centre for Social Justice, ‘Unsafe Children’, led by Sajid Javed.

review cover

review cover

2020

Publication of the Operation Augusta Independent Review

Publication of the damning report into Operation Augusta, ordered by Andy Burnham in 2017 after he heard Maggie speaking of the failures of GMP in their handling of this case. This review led to GMP being forced to reopen the case where over 70 Manchester children were abandoned by GMP. This new investigation into this case was renamed Operation Greenjacket and is still operating in 2026.

Winner pride of britain

Winner pride of britain

2020

Winner of Pride of Manchester Award (Part of Pride of Britain Awards)

Maggie won this prestigious award as as recognition for her work and impact as a ‘whistleblower’ and ‘public service.

Survivors book cover

Survivors book cover

2019

Birth of The Maggie Oliver Foundation, building a “Force for Change”

Maggie founded her small national charity “The Maggie Oliver Foundation”. She began to develop a survivor led model focused on Advocacy within police/cps systems together with long term empowerment and recovery for victims and survivors of all kinds of sexual abuse. We have continued to maintain our independence in order to be able to challenge government and institutions openly.

Survivors book cover

Survivors book cover

2019

Publication of ‘Survivors: Fighting for Justice’

Publication of Maggie’s auto biography entitled ‘Survivors’ which tells the story of her life and police career and resignation to expose the horrific systemic failure to protect children abused by gangs she had witnessed whilst a serving Detective.

Maggie Oliver Big Brother

Maggie Oliver Big Brother

2018

Celebrity Big Brother: Year of the Woman

Maggie is asked to be in Celebrity Big Brother, Year of the Woman talking about/highlighting systemic failures to tackle child abuse.

2015/17

IICSA

Maggie works as a non institutional core participant with Alexis Jay’s IICSA Statutory National Enquiry (Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse)in the ‘Organised Networks’ strand.

three girls trailer thumb

three girls trailer thumb

2013/17

BBC 1 Drama “Three Girls’

Maggie worked for 4 years as The Programme Consultant to bring the BBC drama ‘Three Girls’ to our screens. The drama was groundbreaking, won 6 BAFTAs and was a key moment in her fight to raise the national recognition of organised child sexual abuse and exploitation by ‘Grooming gangs’.

camera on set

camera on set

2016/17

BBC Documentary ’The Betrayed Girls’

Maggie worked for 2 years with documentary maker Henry Singer as a key contributor to bring this documentary ‘The Betrayed Girls’ to our screens. This documentary was made alongside the drama ‘Three Girls’ to educate the public on the true scale of neglect and deliberate failures of the state to protect children and prosecute serial sexual offenders.

maggie on loose women

maggie on loose women

2014

ITV Loose Women. ‘Never too late to Tell’ campaign

Maggie was Centrally Involved in the ‘Never too Late to Tell’ campaign with ITV Loose Women helping shape the series and encouraging survivors of sexual abuse to come forward and seek help.

gilr in countryside

gilr in countryside

2013

BBC Radio 4 File on Four. ‘Rochdale Abuse: Failed Victims’

Maggie became the first police officer to very publicly challenge police, CPS and safeguarding failures to protect children in the BBC File on four documentary, ‘Rochdale Abuse: Failed victims’, where Maggie speaks out publicly for the first time about what she saw, and 2 of the real victims of the police failures in that case also speak on this documentary.

maggie in yellow jacket

maggie in yellow jacket

2012

Resignation from GMP to become a ‘whistleblower’

Maggie resigned from GMP to go public about what she considered gross criminal neglect by Senior police officers to prosecute systemic child abuse on an industrial scale

rochdale building

rochdale building

2010/12

Operation Span, Rochdale

Investigation into ‘Grooming gangs’ abusing vulnerable children in Rochdale. Maggie worked on this case until she saw horrific failures similar to those she saw on Op Augusta in 2005.

manchester building

manchester building

2004/5

Operation Augusta, Manchester

Investigation by GMP into ‘Grooming gangs’ abusing vulnerable children in care homes in Manchester. Maggie worked on this case from day 1 until it was shamefully closed down in 2005 without any prosecutions.

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