Overview

• Muhbeen Hussain was honoured with an MBE in last month’s King’s Birthday Honours for services to integration and cohesion.
• Sir John Jenkins has urged the government to reassess its honours vetting after noting that Hussain’s 2015 police boycott undermined community unity.
• In October 2015, Hussain led British Muslim Youth in a boycott of South Yorkshire Police over inaction on child sexual exploitation, which ended within a week after discussions with MP Sarah Champion.
• The inquiry, set up under the Inquiries Act, will centralise local investigations and hold public hearings to scrutinise police and government actions during the scandal.
• The 2014 Alexis Jay inquiry found that at least 1,400 children were abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 and that fear of being branded racist hindered effective police and social service responses.