(GB News) The government has formally rejected repeated requests for a Home Office-led inquiry into historic child abuse in Oldham after the town’s council voted on the matter earlier this year.
Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips has responded to two letters from the Oldham Council executive after the authority voted to write to the home secretary requesting a formal public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in the borough.
The council also voted to continue its work with survivors and others affected in preparing the framework and to commission an independent inquiry should the Home Office refuse the above request.
But Phillips’s letter to the council, seen by GB News, confirms that the government will not intervene.
