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HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseChild sexual abuse and exploitation are the most vile and horrific of crimes, involving rape, violence, coercive control, intimidation, manipulation and deep long-term harm. The…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseOne of the points that the independent inquiry made was about the broad nature of this abuse and the way in which it can be found anywhere. When we have half a million children…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThese are really serious crimes. For someone like Alexis Jay, who worked in this area over very many years before she led the independent inquiry, and for others who have been…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy hon. Friend is right; we have to ensure that victims’ voices are heard and that they can have the confidence to come forward, because often they feel that they will not be…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThe whole point of us setting up a victims and survivors panel is to ensure that the voices of victims and survivors continue to be heard as part of the implementation, as part of…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. This can be the most appalling way of continuing this abuse, as that is what it is, with abusers using the courts and other…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy hon. Friend makes a really important point about the responsibility of local councils to recognise the things that have gone wrong in the past, to recognise the…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThis is an issue on which I worked with Government Ministers when I was shadow Home Secretary and when I was Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, and there has been cross-party…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI welcome the hon. Member’s really important point about the response having to be colour-blind and class-blind. It has to see these things for what they are: really terrible…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy hon. Friend has rightly referred to the work done by West Yorkshire police not only to look at public protection currently but to pursue historic investigations, which continue…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI welcome the work my hon. Friend has done in this policy area. He is right to talk about young people and children being trafficked around the country. There is some concerning…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI thank the hon. Member for speaking out about his personal experiences. I realise that is never an easy thing to do, and I respect him for doing it. As he says, there are all…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy hon. Friend is right that this has to be about showing respect for victims and survivors; it cannot be about perpetuating misinformation online for the sake of clicks and…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThe clear point is, as my hon. Friend says, that victims and survivors need to be at the heart of the work to take forward the implementation of reforms and changes, and we want…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThe hon. Member makes an important point. Alongside pursuing perpetrators—which must always be the greatest priority because it is about protecting victims and ensuring that those…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy hon. Friend is right to recognise the seriousness of these crimes. The experiences in Rochdale include not just the issues around the Pakistani-heritage gang networks that he…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMany issues obviously cut across, including issues around policing that apply to England and Wales—for example, the police performance framework that we are talking about, and…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseWe need to make sure that young people and children are being protected. These are vile crimes against children. Across the country we have seen young girls, teenagers and young…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseAppalling crimes have taken place against children in Bradford, Keighley and across the country—truly appalling crimes. All of us have to face up to the fact that child sexual…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to her constituent, and to the more than 7,000 victims and survivors who gave evidence to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse…06 Jan 2025