00:00I think the main thing that I have found is that I think, certainly, I did an inspection into Rotherham in 2015
00:07where the issue of grooming gangs and the failure both of the local authority, the police, to intervene effectively
00:16and to catch the perpetrators, because the people that do this stuff are criminals, remember, was not good enough.
00:23And I've looked at the last, the first definition of child sexual exploitation was 2009, a government,
00:30and I've looked at that period of time and tried to make sense of what's going on.
00:35So even though the numbers of cases of what they call group-based child sexual exploitation,
00:43which is code for a very heinous crime, it may be small in number, but it's still pretty horrendous.
00:50In my view, we've got historic cases that we haven't, there may be victims out there that haven't had justice
00:58that I think we should double back and do something about.
01:02And there are current cases where I think the approach to dealing with grooming gangs is not sufficiently robust,
01:10and that essentially is what I've found.
01:12So I think there are two big things I've asked for nationally.
01:16One is a national criminal investigation, and obviously when people are coming forward and reporting crime,
01:23and 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
01:31and see if they want justice.
01:33And the country?
01:34Well, I always think when something is difficult, you don't tell the truth.
01:38And if it's not, then essentially that creates anger and upset.
01:43And so I think just being really straight about it is the best thing to do.
01:46And in a way, I'm angry myself that for the last decade plus, we haven't collected this type of ethnicity data
01:53to say is it or isn't it a national problem.
01:56And that then leads to people running amok with the fact they think there are cover-ups and this and that and the other.
02:02However, some of those people aren't good people, in my view, and they are, you know, determined to sow hate.
02:09Some of those people are people just wanting to know what is going on.
02:12I'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,
02:18then you essentially can work out how to stop it.
02:20And I think one of the reasons I've gone for this tightening up of consent is because I want every woman now
02:28that at the age of 13, 14 and 15, if this happened to her, not to feel that it was her fault.
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