Claire writes in The House magazine...
“…I realised that the government doesn’t understand what makes this an open sore in many communities when Ms Phillips boasted of the numbers arrested by the grooming gangs’ taskforce. Yes, seeing the abusers brought to justice is important. But a key grievance is that local state agencies have been implicated in cover-ups and got off scot-free. Also, the scale of the abuse – and therefore significantly of official failures – is far greater than ministers acknowledge…”
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