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Hundreds of My Abusers Are Still Out There, Says Victim as Grooming Inquiry Launched
The inquiry will examine 30 years of child sexual exploitation cases, focusing on ethnicity, culture, religion, and institutional failures, with a £65 million budget and public hearings.
- On Monday, the Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs published its terms of reference, confirming a comprehensive investigation into how institutions failed to protect children from group-based sexual exploitation in England and Wales.
- Baroness Louise Casey's audit last June found "ignorance, prejudice, and defensiveness contributed to a collective failure to protect children," revealing systemic failures that prompted the government to establish this statutory inquiry.
- Led by Baroness Anne Longfield with panellists Zoe Billingham and Eleanor Kelly, the £65 million inquiry will examine cases spanning 30 years beginning in 1996, with public hearings live-streamed and findings published progressively.
- Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch welcomed the strengthened terms, saying the inquiry will now "explicitly examine the role of ethnicity, religion and culture of the offenders," addressing survivor demands and initial draft concerns.
- The inquiry launches April 13 with local investigations confirmed for Oldham, while criminal evidence will be referred to Operation Beaconport to review hundreds of previously closed cases, with conclusions expected by March 2029.
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Grooming gangs inquiry should probe every UK council and police force – victim
The inquiry has a maximum duration of three years and a budget of £65 million. A child sexual exploitation survivor has urged the grooming gangs inquiry to investigate every council and police force in the UK after the probe outlined its terms of reference. Rotherham abuse victim Sammy Woodhouse said the inquiry’s scope should be expanded to include the period before 1996 because the issue “goes back many more decades”. The £65 million inquiry w…
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newsshopper.co.ukGrooming gangs inquiry to examine impact of ethnicity, culture and religion
The statutory independent inquiry has published its terms of reference.
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Ethnicity and religion to be examined by grooming gangs inquiry, Home Secretary vows
Shabana Mahmood insisted there ‘will be no hiding place for the predatory monsters who committed these vile crimes’ as the grooming gang inquiry published its terms of reference
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