Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report Debate
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Commons ChamberWe must ensure that recommendations are implemented. One conclusion in the Baroness Casey audit states:
“The timeline set out above—”
that is the history of failed reports in the past—
“shows a pattern of case after case of offending that is prosecuted, reviewed and then recommendations for improvement made and repeated, but not followed through. We become so used to hearing about these issues that they become more about justifications for failures rather than problems that need to be fixed.”
We must ensure that these problems are fixed.
I welcome the Home Secretary’s statement that those who are convicted of such crimes will not be able to take part in the asylum system, and I suggest that she may want to extend that to all crimes against the person. The question that my right hon. Friend the Member for North West Essex (Mrs Badenoch) asked was this: will the Home Secretary ensure that no fallacious human rights claims can be made that mean that these people cannot be deported if convicted of these crimes?