Grooming PM Told 'Divisive' Claims Put Children At Risk
The Guardian|May 26, 2023
Politicians who make "inaccurate or divisive claims" about child sexual abuse and grooming gangs undermine efforts to tackle the crime and almost certainly make children less safe, experts have warned in an unprecedented joint letter
Peter Walker
Grooming PM Told 'Divisive' Claims Put Children At Risk

The letter, signed by 50 researchers and more than a dozen organisations, including the NSPCC and Victim Support, urges Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak to avoid narratives on abuse based on "misinformation, racism and division".

It follows much-criticised comments by Braverman, the home secretary, repeatedly characterising so-called grooming gangs targeting vulnerable girls as a predominantly British-Pakistani problem, one based on different "cultural values".

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