up—to—date with some of those appalling situations that people will be familiar with, for example rotherham we are all talking about today is it relevant because it's looking at something that was decades ago. is it your point that we never stop learning and regrettably this sort of behaviour is continuing today? yes, not exactly that sort of behaviour in the sense that fortunately we don't have these huge institutions where this kind of thing goes on, but the question we must always ask about child sexual abuse indeed any sort of child abuse is, what enables it to continue, its not that it starts, but what enables it to continue unchecked and the reason for that is very often usually that somehow the children concerned are not deemed worthy of our curiosity and our determination to intervene so that i don't think it makes sense to say these things can never happen again, we have to distinguish between the kinds of attitudes which allow this to continue and which still allow it to continue among very stigmatised people. in fact, back to your question about why adults may not be believed, yo

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she led the enquiry into systematic child abuse in rotherham, you will remember.onjugated process this is. but finally here at this office building in central london, finally everything getting underway in the last few hours. she made her opening remarks. to the former child migrants who will give evidence before the enquiry during those hearings and to those who have given written testimony, we are grateful for your courage in coming forward to bea for your courage in coming forward to be a witness. we are conscious of the great challenges that many of you have encountered as a result of your experiences as children. i want to assure you of the high—priority that the enquiry places on this case study and on hearing your experiences. we thank those of you who have travelled long distances in order to testify before us. just pa rt order to testify before us. just part of professor alexis jay's opening remarks here this morning. over the course of the day and many weeks and months to come but particularly today we going to be here all day talking to people very clos

mr rotherham, you should reserve your shouting for the stands at anfield. prime minister.ails to understand is that this is notjust a question of looking at money, it isa a question of looking at money, it is a question of spreading best practice and finding a sustainable solution. i have to say that if we look at social care provision across the entire country, the lasting social care providers need is another one of labour's bouncing cheques. i wonder if it is anything to do with the fact that the chancellor and health secretary both represent surrey constituencies. but, mr speaker, there was a second text from surrey castle cup —— surrey county council leader and in the second text it says the numbers you indicated are the numbers that i understand are acceptable for me to acce pt understand are acceptable for me to accept and call off the art. i have been reading a little bit ofjohn mccarrick and apparently it means referendum. and it goes on to say in his text, "if it is possible for that info to be sent to myself, i can then revert back soonest really wa nt can then

been awarded £54,000 each in damages at the high court over remarks by a ukip mep made about the rotherhampion and john healey sued jane collins for slander and libel for comments she made during a speech at her party's conference in 2014. the court was told that the remarks made by mrs collins following the publication of a report into child exploitation in the town had caused extreme distress. our correspondent smith mundasad is at the high court. give us the background? this was all to do with a speech she made in september 2014 at mp5 a about some of mp5 a about 5ome of the of child exploitation that details of child exploitation that happened in rotherham and done nothing about it. what followed was a very lengthy legal battle. first of all, the mps suggested that she could pay them £10,000 each out of court, but she rejected this. the lawyers acting for the mps said this was motivated by a wish to protect her political reputation and save face. what followed was a very lengthy legal battle, partly because she then suggested she had parliamentary immunity because she was an mep and th