Title: "The first step is to shine a full light on it" | Tim Dieppe on the grooming gangs scandal, with United Christian Broadcasters

Description: Head of Public Policy Tim Dieppe speaks to United Christian Broadcasters about the grooming gangs scandal, and the withdrawal of the man who was thought to be the only remaining candidate to chair the government's inquiry.

Wednesday 22 October 2025

The Darlington Nurses' employment tribunal begins in Newcastle

https://christianconcern.com/cccases/darlington-nurses/

BBC Radio 4 22/10/25

This week, hundreds of thousands of students received their grades - but just how important are children’s academic results?

Head of Education Steve Beegoo spoke to United Christian Broadcasters this week about results day, and reminds parents that academic results, while important, are not as important as the need to disciple our children in the ways of the Lord Jesus.

Pastor Tunde Balogun spoke with Premier Christian Radio about his church's legal victory, after successfully overturning a controversial Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) that effectively criminalised its Christian outreach ministry.

Read more: https://christianconcern.com/news/church-overturns-ban-on-outreach-ministry-in-uxbridge/

Aliya Abbasi, mother of Zainab Abbasi, spoke to BBC Radio 4 after a landmark win for open justice at the Supreme Court this week. For seven years now, the Christian Legal Centre has been supporting Rashid and Aliya Abbasi, and Lanre Haastrup in challenging the Court's permanent gagging orders which prevented them from naming doctors involved in their children's end of life care and tragic passing.

Read more about the judgment and watch their statements:

https://christianconcern.com/news/supreme-court-win-for-parents-over-secretive-end-of-life-practices/

This week at the High Court, the government will face a judicial review of its unprecedented VAT policies on private and independent Christian schools.

The government’s decision to impose VAT on the provision of education by independent schools has made the UK an outlier among the 46 Council of Europe states.

Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Christian schools, parents and pupils are bringing the challenge from the award-winning Emmanuel School in Derby, the Branch Christian School in Yorkshire, the King’s School in Hampshire and the Wyclif Independent Christian School in South Wales.

Find out more: https://christianconcern.com/news/government-to-face-judicial-review-from-christian-schools-over-vat-tax-raid/

"You must look at what the words actually mean, not how the reader may illegitimately receive it.

"Now it falls on the employer to show that she wrecked their reputation. It falls on the employer to show that what she was doing was manifestly wrong. And that's a much better standard."

Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern, spoke with Trevor Phillips on Times Radio about Kristie Higgs' win at the Court of Appeal and what it means for Christian freedoms.

Read more about Kristie's case: https://christianconcern.com/news/kristie-higgs-wins-as-court-of-appeal-rules-dismissal-for-free-speech-is-illegal/

Steve Beegoo, Head of Education at Christian Concern, was on Premier Christian Radio offering advice to parents on how to love and guide their children if they are being bullied in school. He shares about how parents can respond in a godly way if their children have been found to be bullying others, and how important it is for parents and children to share a heartfelt connection.

Have a look at our new education website where you can find resources and updates: https://education.christianconcern.com/

"It is incredible that Kristie’s case had to go all the way up to the Court of Appeal in order to show she had been discriminated against."

Tim Dieppe spoke to Nick Ferrari on LBC about Kristie Higgs' vindication and the many other Christians in the UK who undergo persecution for their Christian faith.

Read about her six-year long case here: https://christianconcern.com/news/kristie-higgs-wins-as-court-of-appeal-rules-dismissal-for-free-speech-is-illegal/

Michael Phillips, who defended Kristie Higgs in her landmark free speech case, was on Times Radio with Rod Liddle.

Last week, after a dramatic six-year battle, the Court of Appeal ruled in Kristie's favour, resetting the legal landscape on freedom of speech and religion in the workplace.

Rod Liddle by the sheer number of Christians contacting the Christian Legal Centre for help because they had been put out of job for saying or posting something which appeared offensive.

Read more about Kristie's win here: https://christianconcern.com/ccpressreleases/kristie-higgs-wins-as-court-of-appeal-rules-dismissal-for-free-speech-is-illegal/