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HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI do thank my former honourable Friend Ann Cryer, because she did speak out and stand up for children who were being abused. It is because of that that I recognise, as part of the…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI can tell my hon. Friend that we are working with the Lord Chancellor on taking forward this recommendation now and not waiting for any further local inquiry. Baroness Casey is…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI can assure the hon. Member that we are taking forward the recommendations already. The Minister for Safeguarding updated the House on all the IICSA recommendations before…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI agree with my hon. Friend. We have agreed to implement all the recommendations from the two-year inquiry into child sexual exploitation conducted as part of the Professor Alexis…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI welcome the hon. Member’s points. Baroness Casey’s review identifies that sexual exploitation is a central part of trafficking, and modern slavery as well. I agree with him…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI thank my hon. Friend for speaking out about his experiences. To speak out as a victim of child abuse in that way is immensely difficult, and I think everyone should listen to…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI can tell my hon. Friend that we are going to expand that, and that we will not let up the pace of implementing measures and recommendations. That includes the work that the…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportThe hon. and learned Member will understand that Home Office responsibilities around policing and crime cover England and Wales. The Safeguarding Minister will be following up…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportBaroness Casey was impressed by the work that West Yorkshire police had done using what it called the Smith algorithm; it is included in her report. It looks at risk factors, such…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the work of West Yorkshire police. They have done pioneering work to find new ways to identify victims who may be at risk and to summon…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportMy hon. Friend is right that those attitudes towards teenage girls—towards children—and treating them as adults still persist. Baroness Casey quotes a serious case review of a…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportEveryone should want not just to get to the truth about past failures, but to ensure we make the changes to protect children for the future. That includes changes in social…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportThe answer is yes. I recognise that the hon. Gentleman has raised this issue. Back in January, I said that I would undertake further work to ensure that the local investigations…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI thank my hon. Friend for raising this matter. The Safeguarding Minister takes this issue very seriously, and we cannot have issues relating to the criminal injuries compensation…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportThe hon. Member raises the timescale. In the discussions we have had with Baroness Casey, and recognising the many issues that people want to raise in the inquiry, we had expected…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI know that my hon. Friend has championed victims and survivors in her area and community. She is right to say that we have to make sure that victims and survivors get support.…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportThe decisions about which areas are looked into, and how many, will be matters for the commission. We envisage the commission lasting for three years. I know that the Leader of…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportThis is Baroness Casey’s independent report. The whole point about asking somebody like Baroness Casey to do an independent report is that we know that they will come to their own…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportThe hon. Member makes important points about the seriousness of this crime, and she is right, too, that we need to continue to implement the recommendations of the overarching…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportMay I welcome my hon. Friend’s points that she makes about the anger in her community and the anger across British Muslim communities towards the grooming gangs, towards the rape…16 Jun 2025