The Birmingham Yardley MP told Metro: ‘Now as part of the Crime and Policing Bill, which enters Parliament today, offenders who clearly pose a danger will not be able to change their names and must ensure that they inform the police if they are likely to come into contact with a child.
(Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)] Jess Phillips, Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women, said sex offenders are ‘often highly sophisticated and will go to extraordinary lengths to manipulate others’.
Sex offenders will no longer be able to change their name and hide from the consequences of their crimes under new measures to be introduced by the government today.
‘Whilst I welcome today’s reforms as a step in the right direction, I’m concerned that some changes still rely on sex offenders doing the right thing and notifying the authorities of changes in circumstance.
Sarah Champion, the Labour MP who has spent years calling for the loophole to be closed, told Metro: ‘I have been proud to campaign alongside victims and survivors especially the wonderful Della Wright and the Safeguarding Alliance who first exposed this dangerous flaw.
