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HANSARDChild 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 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 ReportYes, I can say to my hon. Friend that we accept that recommendation in Baroness Casey’s report and we will commission research into the drivers of child sexual exploitation and,…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 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportThat is an important question. I undertook to this House in January that I would look further at how to ensure that local investigations had the powers they needed to compel…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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ReportWe have already provided some additional resources for policing, so that officers will be able to undertake the assessment and identification of cases that were closed but need to…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportMy hon. Friend makes an important point. Too often, victims and survivors have been asked to tell their story, often to multiple agencies, and then have seen no action, which…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportWe are strengthening the safeguards in the asylum system. The system that we inherited was too weak and not strong enough to ensure not only that the rules are respected and…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportWe must ensure that recommendations are implemented. One conclusion in the Baroness Casey audit states: “The timeline set out above—” that is the history of failed reports in the…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI welcome my hon. Friend’s point about the need to ensure that victims are not criminalised for the coercion and crimes committed against them. That failure—the tendency to blame…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportTen days ago, and this is Baroness Casey’s independent report. Anybody who suggests that she would change her views and reports for anyone has not met her.16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportMy hon. Friend makes an important point. On the history and the action that has been taken, one thing that Baroness Casey criticises in particular is a 2020 report produced by the…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 2025