Offences against Children — Written Question

Question

John Lamont

Conservative — Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the remit for the commission into grooming gangs and child exploitation to (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland.

Answer

Jess Phillips

Whilst child protection is fully devolved in the UK and policing devolved except for Wales, all parts of the UK must work together to protect children and bring perpetrators to justice.The Independent Commission into group-based child sexual exploitation ...

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