Criminal damage affecting town centres is up 30% in a year. Under the Tories, neighbourhood policing has been decimated & town centre patrols cut. High streets are being hit by antisocial behaviour & vandalism Labour will put 13,000 extra neighbourhood police & PCSOs on streets https://t.co/BjWlYdXoS6
6.Inquiry warned about urgent need to overhaul online safeguarding as online grooming & sexual exploitation are growing fast. But Online Safety Bill is too weak, online police investigations too limited, digital forensics too slow. Why isn’t Govt taking this much more seriously?
5.Survivors & victims are struggling but response from criminal justice system getting worse. Charge rate for child sexual abuse is down from 32% to 11% & delays are worse. IICSA said “significant reductions in funding of public services” had “a deleterious impact on responses” https://t.co/Jfix2acfVU
4.Govt has had multiple warnings about ongoing risks & failings in unregulated care homes. Yet Ministers rejected Labour’s call to ban these placements for 16/17 year olds, & for action to protect asylum-seeking children from gangs (200 of whom have gone missing from hotels) https://t.co/U2acEQd0GB
3.Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse also investigated appalling failures & abuse in institutions inc Catholic & Anglican churches, care homes in Rochdale, Nottinghamshire, Lambeth. Called for stronger system of child protection inspections. Govt must address all forms of abuse
2. Ministers have known about serious problems w grooming, abuse, organised gangs & institutional failures for years Labour called for mandatory reporting a decade ago. Conservative Govt dragged its feet. Even now it’s more consultation but no timetable https://t.co/lwcnsTpiDU
1.Child sexual exploitation & abuse are devastating crimes Yet Govt response is inadequate & narrow. Shd have done mandatory reporting & more specialist police yrs ago when Labour & survivors called for it. And shd do much more now on institutions, online abuse & victim support
The Home Secretary spends more time chasing headlines than doing hard graft needed to tackle serious problems. All their claims & pledges - from barges to summer Rwanda flights to the impact of their many new laws - just unravel, while problems get worse. Chaotic & irresponsible https://t.co/AihiufnVV8
Thinking of Olivia's family and entire community today. The pain they are feeling will be unimaginable, but so important for them to finally get justice. Thank you to @MerseyPolice CPS & partners for intensive work over many months to get justice for Olivia. https://t.co/kXmJcqM3Wv
Time & again Tories chase headlines instead of doing the hard work to go after smuggler gangs, clear the backlog, reform resettlement & family reunion & get a new agreement w France to stop dangerous crossings undermining our border security & putting lives at risk./2 https://t.co/K8A2KMGT5c