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yesterday evening, was it, when Charlie Peters brought it to light
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for GB News that Labour have just snuck in on the last day of term
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a little change to their policy, just three months after they said we're going to have these local inquiries
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instead of a national inquiry. Just going to scrap those plans. No, we're just going to have a little flexi fund
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where local authorities can choose if they want to take part. Because we know that local authorities are ever so keen
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to investigate themselves. and their own actions. And we can really rely on those local authorities
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to check behind their own ears. But there was an excoriating exchange in Parliament yesterday
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between the Home Office team and the Shadow Minister, Katie Lam, who highlighted the reticence of some of these councils
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to actually instigate these investigations. The fact that the man the Labour government appointed
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to lead this stuff, hasn't heard anything about whether or not these investigations have started, these inquiries have started
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and she spoke about some of the most powerful testimony that we've heard in the court transcripts of some of these convictions
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But it's crazy, isn't it, because one of the biggest issues, one of the biggest charges against local authorities
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is that they covered up, they didn't hold people accountable, and now they're not going to be held accountable
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Well, unless they choose to mark their own homework. It's total madness. I do see it as a betrayal of the thousands of victims
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And, of course, it does seem that this issue has dropped out of the news agenda on other channels
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There was a time at the start of this year when everyone was talking about this where we are not giving it up
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We are going to keep the government's feet to the fire on this. So do stay with us throughout the programme here
