The government has ditched a victims panel that was advising the national inquiry into the scourge of the Muslim child rape grooming gangs and the failure of local authorities to protect vulnerable girls from sexual abuse.
The Metro newspaper has reported that multiple former members of the victims panel confirmed that it was shut down after the government appointed Labour peer Baroness Longfield to chair the national inquiry.
Fiona Goddard, a survivor of a Pakistani Muslim grooming gang in Bradford who quit the victims panel in October, told the paper that its dissolution has made survivors feel “betrayed and disrespected all over again.”
“Survivors were told they had a voice and then it was taken away from them,” she said. “There needs to
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