Brian Hobin: Last News

Further calls for a public inquiry led by the government into grooming and child sexual exploitation in Oldham have been voted down.

direct to your inboxA review into allegations of child sexual exploitation in Oldham is now expected to publish its findings in the ‘middle of 2021’, the region’s deputy mayor has confirmed.In a letter to Oldham council’s chief executive, Baroness Beverley Hughes said the findings of the independent review would not be published for months.She was writing in response to a motion raised at the November meeting of the full council, proposed by Conservative and Independent councillors John Hudson and Brian Hobin.The motion had raised concerns that interviews taking place as part of the review, which was commissioned by mayor Andy Burnham at the request of council leader Sean Fielding and the chair of the Oldham safeguarding partnership, ‘have

Councillors were presented with an update on the progress of an investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation in Oldham during a heated town hall meeting.An independent review is currently underway into alleged child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the borough which concern ‘shisha bars, taxi companies and children’s homes’.Council leader Sean Fielding and Independent Failsworth East councillor Brian Hobin clashed over the issue at a virtual meeting of the full council on Wednesday night.Coun Fielding said that during the course of the meeting people had assembled outside his home while his partner was there alone and 'attempted to bully and intimidate and harass her with a megaphone from across the street'.Moving a motion