none of the rotherham police have been sacked, none of the rotherham social workers have been sacked or the council for what was clearly failing. the biggest question in public life, is what did you know when did you know? we want to know who knew what and when and who did what and why? the conservative government also turned down a call for a national public inquiry partly because when she was home secretary theresa may set up an inquiry into child sexual abuse historically so she would argue i've already set up one... and it didn't look at this and the person that carried out that inquiry did make a very long list of recommendations of what to do about this. and she has pointed out since that the conservatives did not follow up on any of them. what we have also been trying to to this week is, nigel farage, beyond the substance of the issue of an inquiry which we talked quite a lot about yesterday. the question of nigel farage is notjust about inquiry comic for him it's a different one. it is his high voltage friendship with elon musk, who has a huge megaphone that he is using back—to—back and sup

and last year, 0ldham council called for a public inquiry into grooming, but was told to commission a local review instead, as in rotherhamfor decades, grooming gangs and the failures of those meant to protect children have shamed towns and 0ldham is no different. and i'm answering that directly because i want that... it's divided local politics. you haven't answered the question. apologies by the council and police have come and gone, and... for that i am truly sorry. but still, many here believe the full story is yet to be told. i think it's all been covered up. and will we ever get to know the truth? do you feel like there's more still to be heard? oh, 100%, yeah. it has been looked into in 0ldham, hasn't it? no, not as far as i'm concerned. as a mother and a grandmother. no. it's been swept under the carpet for years. do you support a national inquiry? 100%. why is that? because it's disgraceful. in 2022, an independent report found that greater manchester police and 0ldham councilfailed to protect children from grooming and sexual exploitation. this report heard from one child who was abused at the age of 12. she wen

and last year, oldham council called for a public inquiry into grooming, but was told to commission a local review instead, like those in rotherhamre from oldham. for decades, grooming gangs and the failures of those meant to protect children have shamed towns, and oldham is no different. and i'm answering that directly because... abuse has divided local politics... you haven't answered the question! ..as apologies by the council and police have come and gone. and for that, i am truly sorry. but still, many here believe the full story is yet to be told. i think it's all been covered up. and will we ever get to know the truth? do you feel like there's more still to be heard? oh, 100%, yeah. it has been looked into in oldham, hasn't it? no, no, not as far as i'm concerned. as a mother and a grandmother, no. it's been swept under the carpet for years. i would you support a national inquiry? 100%. why is that? because it's disgraceful. in 2022, an independent report found that greater manchester police and oldham councilfailed to protect children from grooming and sexual exploitation. this report heard from one child who was abused a

rotherham that louise casey had done in the 20 tens. louise casey again, and they're two very, very, very different documents like the louise casey report sort of names people and bad cultures in the councile explicit about the race issue. bullying amongst the council and dysfunction amongst the council and that led to councillors standing down. you read the telford report, it's very techie. it's much more wonkish, it's much more procedural and it doesn't have the sort of it doesn't have the sort of visceral political ness of it. now, that's what's important about this, because i think it depends what the government and others are trying to achieve here. and i think the government's argument agree with this or not, is that for them, this is about trying to change things, change processes, you know, implement the recommendations of that report. they view the telford report of having effected change, you know, prevent these kind of things happening. there are others, i think, who feel quite strongly to the point you made, that have enough people been held accountable for the abject failure of so many public institutions when it came to these very, very vulnerable young girls and the the hor

rotherham council censored the report, then threatened to use a high court injunction to stop the publicationf uncensored extracts. jane said that the council wanted to present laura as the victim of an honour killing, rather than admit that she'd been groomed. gb news understands that more information is set to be released about laura and her family's ordeal. risky business had been set up to help local women at risk of exploitation, but they soon found that laura's case was not in isolation. gangs were systematically targeting underage girls in rotherham. the gangs were organised and violent. 115 year old girl was sexually assaulted with a broken bottle. a 13 year old was found drinking vodka in a house full of men after neighbours reported her screams. even when risky business reported the abuse to the authorities, nothing was done. but they did offer a 12 year old victim language lessons in the punjabi and urdu used by her abusers . in the punjabi and urdu used by her abusers. to find out what that was like. i needed to speak to one of the victims. >> i think it all started when i started

the rotherham, the labour run council, said it was murdoch lies and some of those people, some of thoseuncillors who went to the seminar in 2005 who said there's grooming going on and then later denied it was going on, were still councillors until 2024. labour representatives in the area and i wrote to keir starmer six times, an mp, saying these people should not be councillors. and do you know how many times keir starmer in that time responded to me and cared about it? not once. not once. so this is labour doing nothing. they're clearly not caring for our girls. >> i mean, i one of the reasons i joined the call for a national inquiry and said, i try and raise the money and find some independent people to run it. you know, twofold really. one, i don't think the victims have ever been listened to properly or even believed. frankly, that's one of the worst aspects of this. they simply weren't believed. but also, the cover up disturbs me almost as much as the crime. not quite, but almost as much as the crime. and that's where that word statutory comes in. because if, say, it was just five

rotherham where there is estimated i400 victims of child sexual abuse. she had called recently for a five—point plan, but central to it was having a series of new local inquiries where victims or local councilsg them in a national framework, giving them powers to mandate people to give evidence to those inquiries. it looks as though in the face of our pressure, yvette cooper will come up with something quite similar, she will go down the road of saying they don't want another big inquiry that last seven years. but they are willing to have targeted local inquiries into grooming with some of the powers being demanded. that is to try to defuse, i think, being demanded. that is to try to defuse, ithink, some being demanded. that is to try to defuse, i think, some of the criticism inside the labour party whether bigger criticisms the government has been facing on a sensitive issue.— government has been facing on a sensitive issue. you've mentioned a cou - le sensitive issue. you've mentioned a coule of sensitive issue. you've mentioned a coume of times _ sensitive issue. you've mentioned a couple of times reform. _ sensitive issue. you've mentioned a couple of times reform. there - sensitive issu