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Sal Brinton writes… Ukip’s hypocrisy on tackling serious child abuse issue is breath-taking

By Sal Brinton | Tue 28th October 2014 - 8:00 pm

Today in the House of Lords, Baroness Joan Walmsley and the Lib Dems secured an agreement from the Government on the Serious Crime Bill, for a major consultation on introducing rules on mandatory reporting of child abuse.

At our recent Federal Conference in Glasgow, Liberal Democrats passed new Party policy in support of requiring those who work with children and vulnerable adults to be required by law to report to the authorities if they have any suspicion that abuse is taking place. However, despite debates on this and other amendments concerning child abuse being debates, Ukip members of the House of Lords failed again to participate in this work.

Ukip’s hypocrisy is breath-taking. They issue a photograph of a girl with the headline ‘There are 1400 reasons why you should not trust Labour again’ in Rotherham, but their record on tackling serious child abuse issue is disgraceful.

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged child abuse, gordon gillick, lord pearson, nigel farage, ukip and winston mckenzie | 17 Comments

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