Ann Coffey Independent MP
Elected in 1992, Ann Coffey is the Member of Parliament for Stockport.
Ann worked with children and families as a senior social worker and later, a fostering team leader before she was elected to parliament. She was also elected as a Councillor in 1984, leading the Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council’s Labour group between 1988-1992.
She is the author of Real Voices, an independent report into child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester published in October 2014. This was followed up with ‘Real Voices – Are They being heard?’ in March 2017. She successfully campaigned for the removal of the term ‘child prostitution’ from the statute books.
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She is also the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Runaway and Missing Children and Adults. The APPG produced a report in 2012 into children missing from care and the link between missing and child sexual exploitation. The APPG produced a further report in 2016 into Safeguarding absent children and in July 2017 a report on children who go missing and are criminally exploited. A second report was produced into disrupting the exploitation of children to involve them in County Lines in December 2017.
Most recently the APPG held an inquiry into missing adults who have mental health issues in July 2018.
In Parliament, Ann has led debates on catfishing and social media, and children missing from care.
In November 2018 Ann led a debate in which she called for an independent review of the criminal justice system including consideration to be given to the abolition of jury trials in rape cases.
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