Mr Adnan Hussain

Independent — Blackburn

Speaking in the House of Commons on 16 January 2025

Debate

Contribution

I thank the Secretary of State for her in-depth explanation of what the Government are and will be doing to ensure the safety of our children in the face of the most heinous crimes. Since the vote on the amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill last week and the subsequent attention that it attracted in the media, many of my constituents have written to me upset, angry and in fear over the grooming scandal. All the correspondence I have received demands a public inquiry into this scandal, to determine the failures—both historical and present—of the institutions involved that allowed these heinous crimes against vulnerable children to go on for so long and so widely, without being stopped and without the victims being safeguarded and protected sufficiently. I finish by asking the Home Secretary to confirm whether, in northern towns like my Blackburn constituency, crimes of this specific nature and grooming gangs continue to haunt our streets and vulnerable children. Can she confirm that further public inquiries and reports are needed to find out why this has gone on for such a long time? We need to provide my constituents and everybody across the country with solace.

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