Charity talk by former detective and whistleblower Maggie Oliver at a joint meeting of Reform UK's Chester North & Neston and Chester South & Eddisbury branches.
Maggie Oliver speaks at The Mollington Banastre on Wednesday 4 November, starting at 7:00pm. It's a charity talk, and the evening is hosted as a joint meeting of Reform UK's Chester North & Neston and Chester South & Eddisbury branches, with Oliver as the guest speaker.
If you're not familiar with her name, Oliver is a former Detective Constable who became a whistleblower after exposing how Greater Manchester Police handled the Rochdale grooming scandal. She also spoke out about Operation Augusta, where systemic failures left victims of child sexual exploitation without protection. She resigned from the force in 2012, and since then she's spent her time as a vocal advocate for survivors, founding The Maggie Oliver Foundation and campaigning for reform across the justice system. This is her story, told by the person who saw it from the inside.
It's a heavy subject, and the talk sits in that space where personal experience meets a wider conversation about how the system is supposed to work and where it fell short. Oliver's perspective comes from having been both a police officer and a whistleblower, so she can speak to the internal side of the force as well as the impact on the victims she's spent the last decade supporting. The evening is organised as a joint branch meeting, so you'll be hearing from her in that context.
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General admission is £30, and you'll need to pay before the event. The talk is at The Mollington Banastre, 1 Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 6nn, on Wednesday 4 November at 7:00pm.
