A special shout out for Scott - the younger chap on the right of this picture. He is the man who pointed me towards Help 4 Homeless Veterans. It’s because of him that we’ve raised £900,000! Thanks Scott! https://t.co/M8InmqAIFX
Day 2 of our groundbreaking Judicial Review today.
Still consumed in legal arguments as the govt says they don’t HAVE to do anything. Public enquiries have no legal obligation to implement any recommendations! And by NOT bringing in the recommendations of IICSA they argue there in “NO DETRIMENT” to anyone!!!! Just unbelievable, disgusting, offensive and totally contemptuous….
They don’t have to act on recommendations, that’s of course true. But what arrogance! How insensitive and dismissive of all survivors and victims who believed the promises made to them - that retraumatising themselves to bring change were just empty words! Empty promises!!
And of course it begs the question, why are we going into yet ANOTHER public enquiry …. That’s the real question here …. And why spend billions of public money on public enquiries….. it seems as though it’s just another way to avoid action and accountability and kick the ball down the road!!! 😡😡😡
But we @TMOFCharity are fighting this to the death and doing our best to expose the hypocrisy and lies of successive governments!
We and our incredible legal team Howe and Co can but try….
@HenryNowakOrg Rest in peace Henry what happened to you was a total failure from our police service, we as a country will continue to work to get justice for you my friend and will not stop until we get it
RIP Henry Nowak - you will never be forgotten.
#justiceforHenry
💙 Today we shine a light on Henry Nowak’s best friends, who are taking on an incredible challenge in memory of their beloved friend.
We couldn’t be prouder of these amazing young men. 💙
https://t.co/PZOFKMweA4
Today is the day. David vs Goliath. Today we go to the High Court for our landmark judicial review against the Government. We have been shocked at the arguments being advanced by the Home Secretary in defence of its failure to implement key recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). These arguments include, that The Maggie Oliver Foundation does not have standing to bring this challenge on behalf of children, that the Government is under no obligation to implement child protection measures, and that the public at large cannot rely upon promises made by the Prime Minister and Ministers that are made in Parliament.
The Government's legal defence raises fundamental questions about public trust, accountability and whether promises made to survivors following public inquiries mean anything at all.
At the centre of the judicial review are 20 key recommendations issued by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) proposed to better protect children across the UK from sexual abuse. These include properly collecting data relating to child abusers and victims of abuse and exploitation, ending the use of pain-inducing restraint techniques on children in custody and regulation of staff in children’s homes.
We are concerned that more effort and public money appears to be going into defending a challenge designed to ensure these critical improvements in child protection are made than into implementing them.
The simplest example of this is this – if the Government had implemented the first recommendation of the IICSA, there would have been no need for a further three-year, £65 million public Inquiry (The Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs).
WHO IS ALLOWED TO ASK THE QUESTION?
The Secretary of State is a challenging whether The Maggie Oliver Foundation and our founder and Chair, @MaggieOliverUK , have standing to bring the case at all.
This raises a deeply troubling question.
If organisations representing survivors and working every day with the consequences of child sexual abuse are not entitled to ask why promised child protection measures have not been implemented, who is?
The Government is trying to exclude from the debate the very people closest to the consequences of these failures.
For years survivors have been told to come forward. Speak up. Tell the truth. Many have done so at enormous personal cost, but now the Government says they, and those who represent them, cannot object to failures to protect children. Their voices must be silenced.
This challenge was never about politics. Governments of all stripes have let down children. It is astonishing that the Government's first argument in this judicial review is that victims can have no voice.
If organisations representing survivors, and survivors themselves, cannot ask why promised child protection measures have not been implemented, who can?
IF GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE TO ACT, WHAT IS THE POINT?
A central plank to the Government's defence is that ministers are under no legal obligation to implement recommendations made by public inquiries.
If that is right, why spend hundreds of millions of pounds on public inquiries if Government is just going to ignore what they find? We genuinely struggle to understand how anyone can think that is acceptable.
Millions are spent, years of hearings are had, victims pour out their hearts, findings and recommendations are made, promises are made by Government and then broke – but when someone has the temerity to ask why those promises haven't been kept, the Government's response is we never had to keep our promises.
If that is right, the Government must be open about it, and explain to the public why they hold expensive public inquiries at all.
IICSA took seven years, heard from more than 7,000 survivors, cost more than £200 million and made twenty recommendations intended to protect children. But the Government now says, we have no obligation to fulfil its promises to implement recommendations to protect children.
CAN POLITICIANS DENY THEIR PROMISES MATTER?
We are also challenging the Government's position regarding promises made by the Prime Minister and ministers following publication of IICSA's recommendations.
Repeated assurances that action would be taken have been made by senior politicians across successive governments.
The Government's defence includes arguments relating to parliamentary privilege. In effect the Government say that The Foundation cannot rely upon ministerial promises made in Parliament, and that such promises cannot give rise to expectations about future action.
If the public cannot rely on promises made in Parliament, what can they rely on?
Survivors and the public hear ministers make promises.
They hear repeated assurances that lessons have been learned and change will follow.
They build their expectations around those promises.
Many survivors have spent years believing ministers when they said action was coming.
To now be told that those promises cannot be relied upon is not just a legal argument, it is a fundamental betrayal of the trust survivors (and children across the UK) were asked to place in the process.
Trust works both ways.
Survivors are asked to trust public inquiries with the most painful experiences of their lives.
Governments should not then be able to argue that survivors cannot rely on the promises they receive in return.
WHILE GOVERNMENT ARGUES, CHILDREN ARE STILL BEING ABUSED
Government figures show that approximately 2 million children have been sexually abused since IICSA published its recommendations in October 2022.
That astonishing number must not be lost amidst legal arguments and the Government’s technical defences. This case is about the protection of all British children.
What shocks us most is how much ingenuity and effort has gone into finding reasons not to act.
Imagine if half of the same energy had been invested in implementing child protection measures.
Imagine if the resources currently being spent defending this case had instead been spent protecting children.
How many children might already be safer?
While well paid Government lawyers argue, children are still being sexually abused.
That is the reality we cannot lose sight of.
This case was never about clever legal arguments.
It is about whether promises made to children and survivors mean anything at all.
The Maggie Oliver Foundation will not be silent on that question.
I pray that this bill will go ahead. We need COMPULSORY LABELLING of halal and kosher meat. It is totally inhumane and unacceptable that we allow this to happen.
I respect ALL religions but I do not agree that animals should be made to suffer for it. I myself, am a Catholic and the Bible speaks about animal sacrifice. I do not think my God would punish me for not agreeing with these practices.
Any animal being made to suffer unnecessarily should be illegal.
I pray that the MPs will get behind @EstherMcVey1 in this very important bill.
I made a direct offer to Andy Burnham’s Labour Government…
Buy The Bell Hotel in Epping
( it’s for sale at £4 million - and it’s empty ) … put homeless veterans in there and myself and other locals will donate our time to help out.
Deal @andyburnham ?
My dad & grandad were London cabbies. Dad is no longer here but I know exactly where he would have been today, on Westminster Bridge waiting to take our veterans home. Two generations of my family belonged to this trade. I have never been prouder of either of them. There are some debts a nation can never repay but it can always remember whom it owes.
Got an update for everyone.
A lovely woman got in touch with us after the media coverage, with the offer of a house that would fit our family and most importantly, was in a safe area away, giving us the chance for a fresh start in peace.
Yesterday we viewed the property and it was perfect for us. Everything seamed to go positive. The local authority that took over responsibility for housing us while homeless came along and they seamed ok with everything and we are now hopefully that once repairs on the property are finished, we should be able to move forward and finalise a tenancy 🤞
We are on the process of getting what we can from our old house and putting it into storage until things are finalised but, things are starting to look up.
Until then, we have an extention on our temp accommodation, which we have been in for 4 weeks with no further moving and the kids are looking forward to halloween. Hopefully we can be settled by christmas!
I will forever be greatful to this family for reaching out to us during this time and for every person that helped us while at our lowest.
I am also attending @MaggieOliverUK 's ball on the 6th of Nov and then joining her in London the 9th/10th of Nov for the judicial review, which i have given a statment in support of due to my evidence in IICSA in 2019 being extremly relivent to the issues she is raising now. Maggie has been extremely supportive through out all of this and I just want to remind people to please reach out to the Maggie Oliver Foundation if they need any extra support.
If anyone wanted to continue supporting us through out this time, all relivent links are below.
https://t.co/jbR6MX6E0Q
https://t.co/hB0fpCneML
https://t.co/KzwUqnvyrZ
https://t.co/Y23SsQY4HU
@KaitoLadron@theathenauk@fionagoddarduk Fiona was a child and should have been looked after by the authorities.
She was groomed, abused and raped. She doesn’t need to explain anything.
She needs love, care and protection with lots of counselling.
Stay strong Fiona xxx
This isnt a post I’d normally share on X, but I’m feeling so proud and honoured today at just how far we’ve come since the “birth” of @TMOFCharity in 2019…..
It was a truly incredible night for our The Maggie Oliver Foundation 2026 Annual Survivor Ball last night, in many ways the highlight of the year!
We had a room filled with so much hope and love as well as almost 200 survivors and supporters from all around the uk!
I lost count of the number of times survivors said to me that we had “saved their lives” - and in the true meaning of that word - that they had been “suicidal” when they came to us for help in their darkest of hours!
To see those same survivors making friends with others, feeling included and not isolated, make contacts and beginning to build their own support networks and friendships with other survivors is always a true joy to see!
And a vivid reminder of why I started my charity and why what we do is truly life changing, thanks to the incredible staff and volunteer team we’ve built in the past 7 years! And at times that was hugely challenging, and there’s definitely been a few bumps in the road which have undoubtedly made us stronger!
Incredible night!! Inspiring! Emotional! Empowering and above all, hopeful! 🩷
ThAnkyou to everyone who made this night so special!! Unforgettable!
@juneslater17@marion1_alice Good luck on Tuesday and strength and prayers to all the survivors and everyone supporting and helping each other. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Maggie Oliver is a compassionate campaigner loved by the nation, and this says it all.
Before her team heads to the High Court on Tuesday for their Judicial Review into the government's failures to protect children, Maggie wanted to share what the "day job" looks like.
Last night was the Maggie Oliver Foundation 2026 Annual Survivor Ball, the highlight of the year.
Almost 200 survivors and supporters from all around the UK, a room filled with love.
Maggie said she lost count of the number of times survivors told her they had "saved their lives" , many saying they had been suicidal when they first came for help.
That's the real work. Turning pain into power.
Good luck on Tuesday, Maggie. The nation is behind you.
Follow Maggie in her new FB page
Maggie Oliver Campaigning For Justice ❤️
@MaggieOliverUK
This fuckin nonce!
'Sir' Stephen Fry said at the Oxford Union debate that the girls raped by foreigners in Rotherham were 'child prostitutes'.
The Age of Consent is “subjective”
No one should go to jail for raping a minor if there is 'consent'
The Elites are riddled with em!
Finally, a broadcaster who talks bloody common sense 👏
Patrick Christys says it like it is, means what he says and speaks for millions of people across this country who are sick of being ignored.
Here he breaks down the whole racket: support for migrants in France, the journey across the Channel, and the British state then bringing them ashore and housing them. Meanwhile, British taxpayers are expected to keep footing the bill.
It's great to have a broadcaster in this country who actually has the guts to say what millions are thinking.
More power to you, Patrick. 🇬🇧
@Helswicks Thank you so much for your kindness and support. 💙
If you would like to make a donation to The Henry Nowak Foundation, you can do so through our official website:
https://t.co/8bjh67aKzm