First Areas Announced To Be Looked at by the National Enquiry Into Grooming Gangs…

There’s still so much we don’t know about this new statutory national enquiry, but both myself and many survivors are relieved that Bradford/Keighley and London and Oldham are to be looked at.

Time will tell just what this entails, as at the moment it’s too early to say. However my personal opinion is that much of the ‘grooming gang’ networks that have developed and become ‘refined’ over the past 3/4 decades have their origins originally in Bradford and Keighley. 

Labour MP Anne Cryer was shut down and silenced when she was very vocal about this in the lates 90s/early 000s, bravely raising this in The Houses of Parliament even though this led to attacks and being accused of racism. If her cries for action had been acted on then, we may never have been in this position and the many many tens of thousands of children whose lives have been destroyed in he intervening years may never have had to endure the trauma of fighting to be heard.

London has remained under the radar, and we The Maggie Oliver Foundation  be watching closely to see how this evolves over the coming months and ensuring the voices of those we support remain ‘in the mix’ and at the forefront of these conversations.