Inquiry to Launch Local Grooming Gang Probes in London, Oldham and West Yorkshire
The £65 million probe will examine failures by police, councils and health services, and it may refer new crimes to Operation Beaconport.
- On Wednesday, the Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs announced London, Oldham, Bradford, and Keighley will be the first areas investigated for institutional failures in protecting children from sexual exploitation.
- Chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield CBE, the £65 million probe will examine how police, councils, and schools responded to grooming gangs, with any crimes uncovered referred to Operation Beaconport for review of previously closed investigations.
- Victims and survivors remain at the heart of these investigations, as the inquiry seeks to uncover what institutions "did or did not do to protect children from being sexually abused," according to Longfield.
- Keighley and Ilkley Conservative MP Robbie Moore hailed Bradford District's inclusion as a "watershed moment," while a spokesperson for London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan demanded "justice for every single victim."
- Further local areas will be announced later this year as the inquiry establishes what national institutions should have been doing to implement previous recommendations and protect children from harm.
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