Jonathan Gullis

MP Jonathan Gullis expresses similar views regarding vulnerable children to those who enabled 'grooming gangs' to thrive in the 1990s.

The government too must be held accountable for the abuse missing migrant children are likely to be experiencing. It must be hoped that, should he lose his seat in the next election, Gullis’s views regarding migrant young people will render him unsuited to any role requiring contact with young people, or in policies in respect of them. It has created the structures within which child abuse thrives – a publicised pool of easily identifiable vulnerable children with a history of prior abuse, without adults to protect them or act on their behalf. Once enquiries began, the scale of the problem and the scale of state indifference was revealed. He deemed vulnerable migrant children, under the care of the state, to be less worthy than other children. His response is very reminiscent of the views of teachers, social workers and police officers when teenage girls from Rotherham, Oxford and other UK cities were trafficked and sexually abused by older men.

Former schools minister Jonathan Gullis is accused of saying migrant children feared to have been snatched by criminals ""shouldn't have come here ...

During an exchange at PMQs yesterday, Ms Siddiq said: "Ministers have admitted that they have no idea about the whereabouts of those children. That is what our plans will do." "We've had stories of gangmasters turning up at hotels that they know asylum seekers are staying at, taking people away. "It was so despicable I won't repeat it, but its content must be known to her through the outrage on social media. [Penny Mordaunt](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/penny-mordaunt), was urged to condemn the remark. Ms Mordaunt said: "One of the very sad things about the system at the moment, and we recognise that it is a broken system that needs reform, and we are bringing legislation forward to tackle that, but keeping people in hotels for long periods of time increases their vulnerability.

Former schools minister Jonathan Gullis heckled Labour's Tulip Siddiq when she raised the issue in the House of Commons yesterday. Ministers are under fire ...

[Robert Jenrick](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/robert-jenrick/) confirmed that of the 4,600 unaccompanied children that have arrived in the UK since July 2021, 440 have vanished at some point, while 200 remain missing. [investigation by the Observer](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/revealed-scores-of-child-asylum-seekers-kidnapped-from-home-office-hotel) found that dozens of asylum-seeking children had vanished from a hotel in Brighton that is run by the Home Office. Former schools minister Jonathan Gullis heckled Labour’s Tulip Siddiq when she raised the issue in the House of Commons yesterday.