Baroness Louise Casey
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It'll be, I don't know, something about poor people.
It'll be about victims of crime.
It'll be about domestic violence.
It'll be something, it'll be about older people not having good enough social care.
And so it's very personal.
And I find it, I don't often do newscasts, I've never been to Hay, but perhaps I shouldn't say this, but I find it really, really, really hard when they, whichever government it is, don't enact perfectly sensible, good recommendations.
And so I don't give up on the grooming gang ones from last year.
I went to Rotherham a decade ago to do a very specific job.
We essentially took out the local authority, the democratically elected members.
We took out the leadership of the local authority.
And by we, the government of the day did that.
That wasn't a Labour government.
It was a Conservative government and replaced them with commissioners that over a period of time improved Rotherham.
What I personally regret is that I then, on the back of Rotherham, a colleague of mine, Sarah Kincaid, wrote, these are the 10 other things that every local authority in the country could do, and nothing really happened on the back of that.
I moved on to sort out vulnerable families and supporting families, and I moved on to other things.
And last year, Alex, I felt
A bit upset with myself, annoyed with myself that I'd let a ball drop and that perhaps I should have done more to follow up those recommendations.
Whether you have a team or don't have a team, I just... And so on the audit...
I am literally determined.
So we've got a deal now on taxis.