Fiona Goddard

Fiona Goddard is a survivor of a Pakistani grooming gang in Bradford, who waived her right to anonymity in 2019 to become a leading advocate for victims, exposing the institutional failures that allowed the abuse to flourish during her time in state care.

Why I resigned from the national grooming gang inquiry

This week I resigned from the Victims/Survivor Liaison Panel of the National Inquiry into Grooming Gangs. Victims have been fighting for an inquiry for a long time. Previous governments did not commit to a national inquiry. It’s not something Labour pushed for in opposition. As a topic, grooming gangs did not feature in any political