Protecting Power, Not Children: The Government’s Cover-Up of Mass Child Abuse Continues
How the Government is Writing Child Victims Out of Its Own Strategy
The government’s so-called Violence Against Women and Girls strategy has been exposed for deliberately excluding victims of child sexual exploitation.
This isn’t a mistake. It’s not “complex.” It’s a deliberate decision to keep half a million abused children off the record, so the like of Safeguarding Girls Minister, Jess Phillips, can meet government targets and boast of success while burying the truth.
Child victims have been carved out of the official definition of violence against women and girls. A strategy designed to protect women and girls now airbrushes out the children who are raped and exploited every single day in this country.
It is political cowardice dressed up as policy.
Mollie Malone
A Cover-Up in Plain Sight
The Home Office insists child sexual abuse deserves its own “programme.” Don’t be fooled. This isn’t about tailoring responses, it’s about hiding numbers. It’s about protecting reputations.
We’ve seen the same before. In Rotherham, Oldham, Rochdale, Telford and countless other towns and cities. Whenever the truth of industrial-scale child abuse threatened to expose the failure of institutions, the instinct was always the same: deflect, deny, discredit, and delay.
And here we are again. Only this time it’s written into the foundations of national policy.
And where are the politicians who built their careers claiming to speak for women and girls? Jess Phillips never misses an opportunity to brand herself as the champion of female victims of violence. Yet when half a million children are erased from the government’s flagship strategy, she is nowhere to be seen. Silence from those who profit from the language of safeguarding is not neutrality. It is another example of their betrayal.
Half a Million Victims Written Out of History
The government’s own Centre of Expertise says 500,000 children in England and Wales are sexually abused every year. Half a million children.
But by excluding them from the VAWG strategy, ministers can stand at podiums, pound their chests, and declare victory, while half a million victims are excluded from the figures, written out of the story, abandoned all over again.
Victims themselves see it for what it is. As one survivor asked:
“If you take child sexual abuse out of VAWG, where are the girls?”
Where indeed. They’ve been erased to protect the people in power.
Where Are the Politicians Now?
Where are the ministers who never miss a chance to pose in front of a camera when tragedy strikes? Where is the Prime Minister’s outrage at this betrayal?
Where are the grandstanding metro mayors like Andy Burnham? Usually, so loud when it suits challenging decisions made by an out of touch central government, yet silent now while another cover-up is stitched together in Westminster.
And where are the Labour frontbenchers who built their public image on being outspoken about violence against women? Jess Phillips can fill columns and TV studios when it suits her, but when the government is rewriting the definition of violence to exclude raped children, she offers nothing.
Why are the politicians who wrap themselves in the language of safeguarding, equality, and “protecting women and girls” suddenly mute when the victims are working-class children raped on their watch?
Their silence is not accidental. It is complicity.
"If the government are measuring themselves against halving violence against women and girls - if they're not looking at the scale of child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation within that - that will mean we are failing many young victims of abuse."
Andrea Simon, End Violence Against Women.
The Moral Disgrace
Let’s strip away the excuses. This isn’t complexity. This isn’t nuance. This is cowardice. This is betrayal. This is the continuation of a decades-long cover-up in which the state’s priority has never been protecting children, but protecting itself.
Violence against women and girls that excludes girls is not a strategy. It is a fraud.
Every child raped, every child exploited, every child silenced is proof of a nation governed by liars and cowards. A political class that congratulates itself on its strategies while quietly erasing the most vulnerable from its calculations.
The truth is simple: Britain is not failing to protect its children by accident. Britain is failing by design. And until we confront the politicians and officials responsible, by name and without compromise, another generation of children will be sacrificed to the same cowardice, the same evasions and the same lies.
I am Raja Miah. For six years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs.
During this time, Labour Party politicians tried everything possible to stop me. I spent 3 years on bail as case after case they fabricated against me collapsed in court. My mother died before I was able to clear my name.
Now the truth is out. In detail. The Pakistani Rape Gangs are real. And their victims, little White girls, number in the hundreds of thousands.
So now the question is: will you stand with me and help make sure the National Inquiry is prevented from being a whitewash and the gang rape of our nation's children ends?
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- Raja Miah MBE