Calls for public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham defeated at raucous meeting
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCalls by opposition councillors for a government-led public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham were defeated at another fiery town hall meeting.
The Failsworth Independent Group (FIP) had tabled a motion at full council which asked the chief executive to write to the Home Secretary and Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government requesting a ‘fully independent and broad ranging’ public inquiry ‘as soon as is practically possible’.
It also called for a cross-party steering group to be established to work alongside the inquiry. READ MORE:Abuse survivor speaks of grooming horror during fiery debate over damning child sexual exploitation report However the Labour group had tabled an amendment to the motion which removed the section about a public inquiry, which was then adopted and approved – to the fury of opposition councillors who voted against it.
At the meeting on Wednesday night Conservative member Robert Barnes described it as a ‘travesty’, adding it was ‘the night that democracy died in Oldham’.
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