It has now been six weeks since the inquiry into ‘Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ fell into chaos . Over the course of a several days numerous survivors quit – claiming that the civil servants running the process were seeking to dilute the inquiry – and the man being considered as chair stood down. Since then there has been silence from the government. There is still no chair nor terms of reference.

It is important that we all understand the sheer evil of what has been done and what has been hidden from us by the state

This is despite Louise Casey’s damning report in June , which revealed the sheer scale of these gangs and the ‘significantly disproportionate over-representation of suspects of Asian ethnicity’ in the cases she examined. Casey was explicit about the fa

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