Grooming survivors say government's pardon scheme doesn't go far enough

Thousands of grooming survivors remain criminally convicted for offences committed while being sexually abused as children, facing lifelong barriers to employment, education, and social participation.

In the long reckoning with Britain's grooming gang scandals, the government has moved — but not far enough. A new law pardons some convictions held by child sexual exploitation survivors, yet thousands remain marked by criminal records for offences they were coerced into while being abused as children. Baroness Casey, who led the national audit into this exploitation, warns that a partial remedy is its own form of injustice — that to acknowledge some harm while leaving the rest unaddressed is to continue the punishment by other means.

Grooming survivors say government's pardon scheme doesn't go far enough

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