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Child Sexual Exploitation and the Response to Localised Grooming House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming Second Report of Session 2013–14 Volume III Additional written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be published 16 and 31 October, 13, 20 and 27 November, and 11 December 2012, 15 January, and 16, 18 and 23 April 2013 Published on 12 June 2013 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited Home Affairs Committee The Home Affairs Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies. Current membership Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP (Labour, Leicester East) (Chair) Nicola Blackwood MP (Conservative, Oxford West and Abingdon) James Clappison MP (Conservative, Hertsmere) Michael Ellis MP (Conservative, Northampton North) Lorraine Fullbrook MP (Conservative, South Ribble) Dr Julian Huppert MP (Liberal Democrat, Cambridge) Steve McCabe MP (Labour, Birmingham Selly Oak) Bridget Phillipson MP (Labour, Houghton and Sunderland South) Mark Reckless MP (Conservative, Rochester and Strood) Chris Ruane MP (Labour, Vale of Clwyd) Mr David Winnick MP (Labour, Walsall North) The following Member was also a member of the Committee during the Parliament. Rt Hon Alun Michael MP (Labour & Co-operative, Cardiff South and Penarth) Karl Turner MP (Labour, Kingston upon Hull East) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/homeaffairscom. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Tom Healey (Clerk), Richard Benwell (Second Clerk), Eleanor Scarnell (Committee Specialist), Andy Boyd (Senior Committee Assistant), Michelle Garratty (Committee Assistant), Iwona Hankin (Committee Support Officer) and Alex Paterson (Select Committee Media Officer). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 3276; the Committee’s email address is [email protected]. List of additional written evidence 1 Jim Phillips Ev w1 2 End Violence Against Women Coalition Ev w1 3 Birmingham City Council Ev w3 4 Missing People Ev w5 5 Carol Hopewell Ev w12 6 Howard League for Penal Reform Ev w13 7 Esther Rantzen Ev w16 8 Steven Walker and Miss Samantha Roberts Ev w18 9 Safe and Sound Derby Ev w20 10 Chris Longley MBE Ev w23 11 The Law Society Ev w24 12 Shaun Wright, South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Ev w25 cobber Pack: U PL: CWE1 [SO] Processed: [10-06-2013 17:11] Job: 029102 Unit: PG01 Home Affairs Committee: Evidence Ev w1 Written evidence Written evidence from Jim Phillips [LCG 03] I attach something from 19951 and indicates what I had known for years before. I had forgotten about this multiple avoidance by the system, which is now covered up by sophistry with the MP’s not having a clue what is meandering before them at their Select Committees. Just as they themselves do when ducking and diving in front of Jeremy Paxman! Clearly, the present system will never work, and anyway the extent of the problem will become much much worse as result of the austerity measures (I could forecast the effects quite easily). I would suggests pouring the available funding into national preventative measures and restructuring a new structure ... in effect, a paradigm shift. It means looking at the Big Picture rather than a few pixels. You need to look at the roots before a strong healthy plant grows. I have been talking and writing for 30 years and realise there is no point in going against statutory agencies who have different agendas to me. So the children really haven’t a chance and will continue to have the millstone around their necks ..... and the eventual victim blame. The most severely abused always get blamed the most. The attached letter indicates that I was ahead of the system all those years ago ..... I have extended that gap and would do anything to close it, though by now I am rather fed up with the meat hooks! Also, regarding incidence: this can be found by extrapolating mental health figures as biological psychiatry is totally flawed. I have done all this research over the years and I am really too tired to keep on wasting my time with my offers. SS are worse than the police, but they all write well even if the volumes and volumes indicates they are not fit for purpose. Do you not realise what is hidden from your knowledge by simply ignoring the evidence and not investigating? I have known this for years. A politician wanted me to write about my Index Cases a some years ago, but I was put off because I knew that no one in the police/SS who were able to understand such heavily documented cases (all cock ups by the system—very severe abuse that was likely to be intergenerational). She wanted to send the cases to a senior in IPCC who was about to go on gardening leave. I decided to focus on a bigger picture. Jim Phillips 7 August 2012 Written evidence from The End Violence Against Women Coalition [LCG 04] About the End Violence Against Women Coalition The End Violence Against Women (EVAW) Coalition campaigns for governments at all levels around the UK to take urgent action to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls. We are the largest coalition of its kind in the UK representing over 7 million individuals and organisations. A full list of members is on our website www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk. Summary We warmly welcome the Home Affairs Committee’s Inquiry into “Localised child grooming”. All the research we have to date suggests that men are overwhelmingly the perpetrators and girls disproportionately the victims so it is essential to take a gendered approach to understanding and responding. This should be addressed in a coordinated way and connected to the Home Office-led Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls strategy which the Committee has previously considered. We would suggest that the remit of the Inquiry should be broader to consider sexual abuse and exploitation in the round. We note that “grooming” is not a specific form of child sexual abuse, but rather a way in which perpetrators target children and manipulate environments about which there is much expertise (the first paper on “child sex rings” was published in 1979). A broader remit would ensure that the focus remains on the gendered nature of the problem, and avoids the risk of becoming racialised. Further, that the range of routes and processes through which girls and young women become ensnared in exploitative networks and relationships, beyond “grooming”, are also addressed. International human rights obligations require the UK to address all forms of sexual exploitation with equal attention and resources. With regards to girls in local authority care, there is research showing factors which precipitate their involvement in sexual exploitation and therefore identifiable ways of reducing and preventing this. We would be pleased to give oral evidence to the Inquiry about these issues. 1 Not published cobber Pack: U PL: CWE1 [E] Processed: [10-06-2013 17:11] Job: 029102 Unit: PG01 Ev w2 Home Affairs Committee: Evidence Submissions to the Inquiry into Localised Child Grooming 1. The End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) warmly welcomes the Home Affairs Committee’s Inquiry into “Localised Child Grooming”. The issues at stake are ones that our members have considerable expertise in, both from an academic perspective as well as from the experience of frontline service providers. 2. The current evidence base reveals that men are overwhelmingly the perpetrators of all forms of child sexual abuse and exploitation, and that girls and young women are disproportionately its victims. Whilst some boys and young men are victimised, this is in much lower numbers, and again the perpetrators are also men. We need to understand and attempt to explain these gendered realities if we are ever to hope to address this issue in anything other than a reactive way. 3. We therefore strongly recommend that policy on this issue should be linked into the Home Office-led Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls which is the Coalition Government’s cross-government strategic initiative to end all violence against women and girls (VAWG).2 This should be reflected at local level in terms of joined up and gender-specific delivery. Our blueprint of a VAWG strategy, Realising Rights, Fulfilling Obligations, which led to the Coalition Government’s strategy sets out a strategic framework more fully.3 4. We would suggest that the Inquiry should be broadened out to cover sexual exploitation and abuse. We note that “grooming” is not a specific form of child sexual abuse and would caution against disconnecting the issue from an evidence base spanning three decades and from the overarching and structural issues, including gender. There are established fields on both “child sex rings” and “child sexual exploitation”, which has much to tell us about how perpetrators target children and manipulate environments to their benefit and this has been documented by UK and international research for at least three decades.4 A broader remit would ensure that the focus remains on the gendered nature of the problem, and avoids the risk of becoming racialised.
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