Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report Debate

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Department: Home Office

Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report

Gregory Stafford Excerpts
Monday 16th June 2025

(1 day, 22 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper
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We 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.

Gregory Stafford Portrait Gregory Stafford (Farnham and Bordon) (Con)
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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?