Sarah Champion MP, Co-Chair of the APPG on Sexual Violence, today welcomed the Government’s announcement of an additional 10% funding for specialist rape and sexual abuse support services over a three-year funding cycle. The Ministry of Justice also announced a pilot of devolved commissioning to five Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs).
Read MoreSarah Champion MP has written to the Home Secretary to request a meeting with Orgreave Truth and Justice campaigners to discuss the need to hold a public inquiry into events at Orgreave in 1984 and in its aftermath. The site of the former Orgreave Coking Plant is in Sarah’s Rotherham constituency.
Read MoreSarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, has obtained figures from the Ministry of Justice that details the dramatic increase in the number of people sentenced to custody for child sexual abuse (CSA) offences since 2010, and the high percentage of those offenders being men.
Read MoreSarah Champion MP has written to members of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s Cabinet ahead of a vote on proposals that would see three Rotherham Sure Start Children’s Centres deregistered, including two in Sarah’s constituency. Cabinet will vote on the proposals on Monday 22nd October.
Read MoreSarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, has obtained statistics showing the length of custodial sentences handed to people convicted of child sexual abuse offences in 2017. The information was obtained in a written parliamentary question to the Home Office.
Read MoreSarah Champion, MP for Rotherham and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual Violence, has reacted to the publication of the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) annual Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) report, published today.
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