Submitted by Richard Hilton on Thursday 2nd January 2025
Published on Tuesday 4th March 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Thursday 4th September 2025
Current Signatures: 11,496
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Tagged with
2023 ~ abuse ~ Arrest ~ August ~ Change ~ Children ~ Councillor ~ Ethnicity ~ Forced ~ grooming ~ grooming gangs ~ Helped ~ Hundreds ~ Inquiry ~ launch ~ Leadership ~ local ~ Major ~ Pakistani ~ Police ~ Public inquiry ~ Reported ~ Rotherham ~ Senior ~ Social Workers ~ Staff
Launch a Public Inquiry into Grooming Gangs
A taskforce has helped arrest hundreds of offenders since 2023. We believe abuse is large scale and ongoing. Yet we think the authorities refuse to acknowledge the background and motivation of abusers, the failures of police, social workers and local councillors, and potential cover-ups.
In August 2014, a ground breaking report by former senior social worker Alexis Jay revealed that an estimated 1,400 children had been sexually exploited in Rotherham from 1997 to 2013, and the majority of known perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage. It revealed the failures of leadership and staff fears of being considered racist in identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators.
We think only a full public inquiry can force overdue change.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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