PRESS RELEASE by Greater Manchester Police "A paedophile who threatened a teenage girl with a gun down a Manchester alleyway following a campaign of grooming and sexual abuse in the 2000s has admitted charges following a GMP investigation. Christopher Oates’ crimes have finally caught up with him as he pleaded guilty on the fourth day of ...

This is an inspection report, Greater Manchester children's services response to child sexual exploitation and child criminal exploitation , published in July 2025 by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). It is the local-authority component of "Part Four" of the Greater Manchester Combined Authori...

This is an inquiry report, Independent assurance review of the effectiveness of multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester — Part Three: The review into Operation Span and the investigation of non-recent child sexual exploitation in Rochdale , published in January 2024 by Imprana Ltd and GKR Partnerships Ltd...

This is an inquiry report, Independent assurance review of the effectiveness of multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester – Part One: An assurance review of Operation Augusta, dated December 2019 and published on 14 January 2020 by Imprana Ltd and GKR Partnerships Ltd. It was authored by Malcolm Newsam CBE ...

"Since 2014, inquiry after inquiry has revealed how children, often girls, care-experienced young people, or those from marginalised backgrounds were not listened to, with some dismissed by social services as making “life choices”. Despite the Jay report , the 2022 Telford inquiry , and the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse , vi...

This is an inquiry report, Independent assurance review of the effectiveness of multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester — Part Two: The review into historic safeguarding practices in the borough of Oldham , published in June 2022 by Imprana Ltd and GKR Partnerships Ltd. It was authored by Malcolm Newsam C...

This is a research report, The Impact of Organised Crime in Local Communities , published in June 2017 jointly by The Police Foundation and Perpetuity Research. It was authored by Ruth Crocker and Sarah Webb (Perpetuity Research) and Dr Sarah Garner and Michael Skidmore (The Police Foundation), directed by Professor Martin Gill and John G...

This is a briefing paper, Organised Crime and Child Sexual Exploitation in Local Communities , published in October 2016 by The Police Foundation and Perpetuity Research as the third in a series of briefings under a Dawes Trust-funded research programme. It was authored by Michael Skidmore, Sarah Garner, Ruth Crocker, Sarah Webb, John Gra...

"Sex abuse of children in Rochdale needed more thorough investigation, rather than officers examining victims' credibility, police have admitted. "Greater Manchester Police apologised after a report highlighted failures "at individual and force level" , external into its dealings with victims from 2008-2010. [...] "Sir Peter said the Roch...

This is Parliamentary material — the Government Response to the Home Affairs Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2014–15 , ordered to be printed on 24 February 2015 and published on 2 March 2015 as the Committee's Seventh Special Report (HC 1072). It contains a letter from Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary, dated 10 February 2015, tog...