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Former children’s commissioner to lead grooming gangs inquiry

Baroness Anne Longfield said the inquiry owes it to the victims, survivors and the wider public to identify the truth’.

Evening Standard

Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield to chair grooming gangs inquiry

Peer named as chair of national inquiry, which is expected to cover England and Wales, after long-delayed search

The Guardian - UK

Grooming gangs inquiry ‘must consider ethnicity and religion’, Badenoch says

Tory leader also wants time-limit for inquiry, as Labour criticised over delays and rows about investigation’s scope

The Guardian - UK

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Kemi Badenoch presses Government to accelerate grooming inquiry progress

The Tory leader is set to unveil draft terms of reference for the inquiry.

Evening Standard

Met police to face ‘Casey 2’ inquiry amid recent scandals

Gillian Fairfield to lead review as critics say nothing has changed since 2023 report found institutional discrimination

The Guardian - UK

Former Met police officer accused of using sex workers while on duty

Exclusive: Imran Patel, who resigned last year after reports about his conduct, is being investigated by the IOPC

The Guardian - UK

Met police’s culture makes racial harm ‘inevitable’, internal review finds

The revew, the first to focus on the racism of the institution as a whole, found a culture and leadership determined to prevent real change

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Why the UK’s grooming gangs inquiry is in turmoil – and what needs to happen now

The UK’s grooming gangs inquiry appears to be in turmoil before it has even started, following the resignation of several women from its victim liaison panel. Their complaints related mainly to appointments to chair the inquiry and the potential for its focus to be widened.

The Conversation

Child prostitution convictions of abuse victims to be pardoned under law change

The move acts on one of 12 recommendations made by Baroness Louise Casey in her review of grooming gangs published in June.

Evening Standard

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage

Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

The Guardian - UK

Met Police to review 9,000 cases of child sexual exploitation

The force said many of the cases did not fit the common understanding of grooming gang offending.

Evening Standard

The child abuse inquiry was meant to move the dial. Three years on, nothing has changed

As the row surrounding the future Grooming Gang Inquiry deepens, Bryony Gooch reflects on the third anniversary of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, as those who were involved warn key recommendations still haven’t been implemented

The Independent UK

Starmer stands by Jess Phillips as grooming gang survivor threatens to sue minister

Jess Phillips is coming under increasing pressure to resign as safeguarding minister with the grooming gang inquiry in crisis

The Independent UK

The UK’s 15-year-scandal no government has gripped: grooming gangs explained

Stretching back to 2012, the government investigation into grooming gangs has a controversial history

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The Independent UK

Second group of grooming gangs victims back Phillips after call for her to quit

Four victims previously quit the national inquiry’s victims liaison panel as they urged the minister to step down.

Evening Standard

Starmer has faith in Phillips as grooming gangs victims call for her to quit

Four women who quit the inquiry’s victims liaison panel have said they would be prepared to return if Phillips resigns.

The Independent UK

PM personally intervenes to contact grooming gang victims as ex-Labour minister joins calls for Jess Phillips to resign

The government said Jess Phillips has the ‘full backing of the prime minister and home secretary’ insisting she will stay in post

The Independent UK

Victims who quit grooming gang inquiry panel ‘may return if Phillips resigns’

As well as Jess Phillips’s resignation, they call for ‘all survivors on the panel to be genuinely consulted on the appointment of a chair’.

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Evening Standard

Abuse survivors: We'll only rejoin grooming gangs inquiry panel if Jess Phillips resigns

As well as Jess Phillips’s resignation, they call for ‘all survivors on the panel to be genuinely consulted on the appointment of a chair’

The Guardian - UK

Last candidate to chair grooming gangs inquiry withdraws over ‘lack of trust’

Jim Gamble cites ‘vested interests’ and ‘political opportunism’, as Keir Starmer brings in Louise Casey as adviser

The Independent UK

The prime minister must take charge of the grooming gangs inquiry

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Neither removing Jess Phillips as safeguarding minister nor appointing Louise Casey to an ill-defined advisory role is likely, on its own, to restore much confidence. For the sake of the hundreds of sexual abuse victims, it is imperative that the PM now finds the right person…

Evening Standard

Grooming gang inquiry chaos deepens as ex-police chief in running to chair it withdraws from process

Jim Gamble, a former senior police officer, was one of two prospective candidates to lead the probe but is no longer seeking the position

The Independent UK

Baroness Casey hauled in to save grooming gangs inquiry after four survivors quit, Starmer announces at PMQs

The PM says Baroness Casey ‘will now support the work of the inquiry and it will get to the truth’

Evening Standard

Standard exclusive investigation: Inside London’s grooming gang shame

Police failure. Institutional cover-up. Establishment silence: The real story of London’s harrowing grooming gang epidemic

The Guardian - UK

UK grooming gang inquiry faces further disruption as candidate for leader withdraws

Former Lambeth children’s services director Annie Hudson pulls out following intense media coverage

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