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The Latest Breaking News from Maggie Oliver

Campaigners launch legal action bid against those who failed to tackle grooming gangs

Maggie Oliver, a former police detective turned whistleblower, launched the campaign on Monday

The Independent UK

Campaigners seek legal action against those who failed to tackle grooming gangs

The #TheyKnew campaign is seeking to raise £125,000 to investigate whether they can bring legal proceedings against public bodies or individuals.

Evening Standard

Local reviews into grooming will get answers and bring change, says Cooper

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said local reviews would provide more answers and change than a nationwide probe.

Evening Standard

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Home Secretary announces local reviews into grooming gangs

Yvette Cooper addressed the House of Commons on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Home Secretary threatened with legal action over grooming scandal

Maggie Oliver, a former detective who resigned from Greater Manchester Police in 2012, said she issued a pre-action letter to Yvette Cooper.

The Independent UK

OPINION - The last inquiry failed grooming gang victims — we need a full national inquiry

It’s easy to get sucked into the online fight between Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and the British government over the rape gangs scandal. But it risks us losing sight of what really matters: the victims and their needs.

Evening Standard

Cooper defends Phillips as ‘fearless’ advocate after Musk criticism

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said minister Jess Phillips had ‘campaigned tirelessly’ on behalf of those that had been failed by institutions.

Evening Standard

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Reform UK would launch grooming gangs inquiry if elected, chairman says

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised by Elon Musk over the issue.

Evening Standard

Whistleblower says Starmer ‘guilty as anyone’ over grooming gang failures

Maggie Oliver criticised previous inquiries into the scandal.

Evening Standard

Whistleblower says Starmer ‘perhaps as guilty as anyone’ over grooming gang failures

Maggie Oliver criticised previous inquiries into the scandal

The Independent UK

Ex-chief prosecutor rejects Musk’s calls for new child abuse inquiry

Nazir Afzal and police whistleblower Maggie Oliver say previous lengthy inquiries were not acted upon

The Guardian - UK

Women treated like meat and subjected to unjustified strip searches in police custody, damning report finds

‘The only reason they did what they did was to degrade me ... If I was a man, I don’t think they would’ve done it,’ one woman tells inquiry into Greater Manchester Police

The Independent UK

Greater Manchester Police warn ‘reckoning is coming’ to Rochdale abusers in pledge to failed victims

It comes as a lengthy review reveals multiple failed investigations by Greater Manchester Police into hundreds of youngsters identified as potential victims of abuse in Rochdale

The Independent UK

Police ‘left children at mercy of grooming gang paedophiles’ in Rochdale

Failings by senior police and council bosses left children ‘at risk’, report finds

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Police took aborted foetus without telling Rochdale grooming victim, review finds

Failing among those detailed in highly critical report into how GMP and other agencies responded to child sexual exploitation

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: AI Manchester

What if a robot designed the city centre? PLUS The man who discovered Herman's Hermits

Manchester Evening News

'This is rhetoric that I've heard before': Call for 'action not just more words' over grooming gangs taskforce

Campaigner Maggie Oliver met with the Prime Minister and Home Secretary with three survivors of child abuse - they shared their stories

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: My rate? £6k a day

How is GMP rooting out bad apples? PLUS Sir Graham Brady caught in sting AND Piccadilly to Old Oak Common

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Manchester Evening News

82 GMP officers accused of sexual misconduct and a tiny rape charge rate

In the week that Baroness Louise Casey's damning report into the Metropolitan Police was published - campaigners have expressed concerns about Greater Manchester Police's own track record when it comes to their treatment of women and girls

The Guardian - UK

Second charity refuses £10k raised for woman guilty of false rape claims

Women’s group in Barrow was one of two charities to receive money raised for Eleanor Williams

The Guardian - UK

Abuse survivor charity refuses £10,000 raised for woman guilty of false rape claims

Maggie Oliver Foundation says it would be ‘unethical’ to accept money raised on crowdfunder page in aid of Eleanor Williams

Manchester Evening News

'Why did it take so long to deport Rochdale grooming gang members... as they continued to walk our streets?'

“There can be no doubt that on the conclusion of those sentences they should have been speedily deported. This did not happen"

Manchester Evening News

'Victims are being failed...' Maggie Oliver backs barrister strikes as she blasts 'crumbling' criminal justice system

Strikes have brought many of Manchester's criminal courts to a standstill

Manchester Evening News

Sir Peter Fahy denies whistleblower's claims he created a 'culture of cronyism' when he was chief constable

The former top cop of GMP said he made the promotion process less subjective as part of a campaign to make the force more open

Manchester Evening News

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