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A furniture curate has rejected a telephone from Labour's Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham for a caller nationalist enquiry into grooming gangs, portion leaving the doorway unfastened for a aboriginal investigation.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said she disagreed with Burnham's enactment for a caller enquiry into humanities kid intersexual maltreatment successful areas including Oldham and Rochdale, successful Greater Manchester.
The Conservatives and Reform UK person some backed calls from tech billionaire Elon Musk for a caller nationalist investigation.
But Labour ministers person said their precedence is to instrumentality the 2022 recommendations of a seven-year inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay into kid intersexual abuse.
On Wednesday, MPs voted against a Tory determination to unit a caller nationalist investigation.
Burnham told BBC Radio Manchester helium thought determination was a lawsuit for a "limited nationalist enquiry that draws connected reviews similar the 1 that I commissioned, and the 1 we person seen successful Rotherham, the 1 we person seen successful Telford, to gully retired immoderate of these nationalist issues and compel radical to springiness evidence, who past whitethorn person charges to reply and beryllium held to account".
Asked astir this connected ITV's Good Morning Britain, Nandy, MP for Wigan successful Greater Manchester, said: "I get the constituent that Andy's making."
She said helium was calling for a smaller enquiry into circumstantial issues that the 1 helium had instigated could not prime up.
The civilization caput described it arsenic "astonishing" that immoderate Greater Manchester Police officers had refused to instrumentality portion successful that section enquiry and could not beryllium compelled to bash so.
But, she added, she did not hold with Burnham, due to the fact that the Jay inquiry, acceptable up by Theresa May's government, had taken grounds from thousands of victims and addressed the issues helium had raised.
"That enquiry recovered what each enquiry has found, that young girls weren't believed due to the fact that they were young, they were female, and they were working-class, and that the systems that were expected to support them protected themselves alternatively of protecting those brave young victims," Nandy said.
She denied the authorities was "cross" with Burnham, saying the full constituent of devolution was "that we privation to marque definite that people's views are heard from crossed the country".
Asked whether the authorities was ruling retired different inquiry, Ms Nandy said: "The crushed I deliberation that radical person heard from america that determination whitethorn astatine immoderate constituent successful the aboriginal beryllium different enquiry is due to the fact that kid maltreatment by its precise quality is hidden, it's secretive, and, astatine assorted points, I'm definite that much volition travel retired astir the scandals that we've heard."
On Monday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the authorities would statesman implementing Prof Jay's telephone for mandatory reporting of kid intersexual abuse, with further details to beryllium acceptable retired successful the coming weeks.
The premier curate has warned that launching a further enquiry could hold enactment connected tackling kid intersexual abuse, though helium noted determination was nary "fixed view" among survivors connected whether 1 was needed.
On Wednesday, the Commons rejected a Conservative amendment to the government's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which called for different nationalist inquiry.
The Tories accused Labour MPs of having "turned a unsighted oculus to justice" for victims of grooming gangs.
Th bill, which includes measures aimed astatine protecting children and tougher rules astir home-schooling, arsenic good arsenic changes to academies, would person been killed disconnected if MPs had voted done the Tory amendment.
Burnham said that portion helium supported a limited, caller inquiry, MPs were close to ballot down Conservative "opportunism".
Ministers person suggested they are keeping an unfastened caput astir a aboriginal probe if it becomes wide that survivors privation one, on with the implementation of Prof Jay's recommendations.
But Nandy said she had spoken to survivors who had fixed grounds to the Jay enquiry and had begun to suffer religion successful the process starring to factual action.
"We tin not perchance inquire victims to spell done that again erstwhile not 1 azygous 1 of those recommendations has been implemented.
"Our connection to victims is we recognize the clip for enactment is agelong overdue and we are acting. The clip for talking is over, the clip for enactment is now," she said.
However, she added the authorities was not ruling retired a aboriginal enquiry "because kid maltreatment by its precise quality is hidden, it's secretive, and, astatine assorted points, I'm definite that much volition travel retired astir the scandals that we've heard".
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