Natalie Fleet MP tables child protection reforms

Derbyshire Times

Bolsover MP Natalie Fleet introducing new measures in Parliament to protect children from parents convicted of sex offences. (Video: House of Commons)

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00:00Today the government announced that it will take parental responsibility away

00:05where a child is born of rape. This will protect grooming victims. Children in

00:12this country will no longer be the only proceed of crime that criminals can have

00:17lifelong access to. Does the minister agree with me that survivors have been

00:24failed for too long by a government that didn't prioritise giving them justice, a

00:31party led by a leader of the opposition that did not mention grooming when she

00:37had the power to do something about it. Instead survivors have had to wait for

00:44victims and activists to be on these benches and the most fierce of advocates

00:49to be at the dispatch box. I thank the Honourable Lady and I think she

00:57mischaracterises me as the fiercest of advocates because she as a grooming

01:03victim herself with a child born of rape is the fiercest bravest I could cry I feel

01:13so proud that what this government did was seek to get her elected and I have

01:20been campaigning for the thing that she has fought for with grooming gang victims

01:25for nearly a decade. I met with ministers of the then government and nothing was

01:33done. It is because she it well the exact thing that the member for Bolsover has

01:40campaigned for was asked for repeatedly and nothing was done. It is because of her and

01:47this government that today I am incredibly proud of her and to say that will change.

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