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I think the main thing that I have found is that I think, certainly
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I did an inspection into Rotherham in 2015, where the issue of grooming gangs and the failure both of the local authority
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the police, to intervene effectively and to catch the perpetrators, because the people that do this stuff are criminals, remember, was not good enough
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And I looked at the last, the first definition of child sexual exploitation was 2009
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a government, and I've looked at that period of time and tried to make sense of what's going on
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So even though the numbers of cases of what they call group-based child sexual exploitation
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which is code for a very heinous crime, it may be small in number, but it's still pretty horrendous
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In my view, we've got historic cases that we haven't... there may be victims out there that haven't had justice
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that I think we should double back and do something about. And there are current cases where I think the approach
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to dealing with grooming gangs is not sufficiently robust, and that essentially is what I've found
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So I think there are two big things I asked for nationally One is a national criminal investigation And obviously when people are coming forward and reporting crime
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and I think we need also, it's in the report, I've got a formula where I think we can go and try and find historic victims
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and see if they want justice. Well, I always think when something is difficult and you don't tell the truth
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then essentially that creates anger and upset. And so I think just being really straight about it is the best thing to do
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And in a way, I'm angry myself that for the last decade plus
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we haven't collected this type of ethnicity data to say, is it or isn't it a national problem
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And that then leads to people running amok with the fact they think there are cover-ups
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and this and that and the other. Some of those people aren't good people, in my view
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and they are determined to sow hate. Some of those people are people just wanting to know what is going on
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I'm in the group, which is I want to know what's going on, so if I can understand what they're calling police in terms of the threat
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then you essentially can work out how to stop it. And I think one of the reasons I've gone for this tightening up of consent
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is because I want every woman now that at the age of 13, 14 and 15
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if this happened to her, not to feel that it was her fault
