What is going to be different this time? Grooming Gang Inquiry

Episode 2: What Is Going To Be Different This Time?The Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs has begun.Survivors have been promised that this inquiry will be different. That lessons will be learned. That victims and survivors will be at the heart of the process. That institutions will be held accountable.But many survivors have heard similar promises before.In this episode, Ilja Abbattista explores what came before this inquiry, why some survivors lost confidence in the process before it had even properly begun, and what needs to happen if this inquiry is to achieve meaningful change.Drawing on her own lived experience of organised exploitation, Ilja shares insights into how exploitation networks identify vulnerability, recruit, control and silence victims. She discusses the gap between policy and reality, the importance of trauma-informed practice, and why survivor knowledge must be recognised as more than testimony.This episode asks difficult but necessary questions:• What is genuinely different about this inquiry?• Why do survivors often struggle to trust official processes?• What can we learn from previous inquiries?• Are we making full use of the knowledge survivors carry?• How do we move beyond reports and recommendations towards real change?This conversation contains discussion of child sexual exploitation, grooming, trafficking, violence and institutional failure.Listener discretion is advised.If you are affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode, please seek support from an appropriate professional or specialist organisation.Silence Serves the Wrong People is a survivor-led podcast exploring the conversations many people avoid, the questions that often go unasked, and the realities that sit behind the headlines.