Two Survivors Quit UK Grooming Gangs Inquiry Panel

Why is London ignoring its grooming gangs?

Teenage girls love Westfield shopping centre: they can hang out playing truant, or linger after school and weekends and be pretty invisible. They ride the escalators, drink milkshakes, and look out for good-looking boys to flirt with. And at Westfield there are boys lying in wait. Teens are there, in small groups, sent to target girls of around 13 who are hanging out with no adults in tow. This is “first-stage seduction” — a tried-and-tested tec…

Grooming gang victim steps down from inquiry and alleges ‘cover-up’

We spoke to survivor Fiona Goddard who resigned from her role in the government's grooming gang inquiry and started by asking her about her experience.

'It's felt like a fight to get your voice heard'

Survivors of child sexual exploitation have spoken out after a day of turmoil for the national inquiry

MP's new concerns over grooming gangs inquiry - after survivors quit roles in probe

A Bradford district MP has raised concerns about the Government's handling of the planned national inquiry into grooming gangs - after two survivors of child sexual abuse quit their roles in the probe.

Starmer's Grooming Gangs Inquiry in Crisis as Chairman Candidate Quits

Keir Starmer’s grooming gangs inquiry has been plunged into fresh turmoil after one of the candidates to lead it withdrew from the process, a day after two gang victims quit the liaison panel amid worries of a cover-up.

Starmer Accused of “Cover-Up” after Latest Blow to Grooming Gang Inquiry

Keir Starmer only begrudgingly commissioned a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal in June this year after initially accusing supporters of such a probe of jumping on a “far-right bandwagon.” Now, he is being accused of sabotaging the inquiry, which many have long warned could wind up being a total whitewash. Any hope that the inquiry might do some good was greatly damaged when two victims quit a liaison panel on Monday and claimed t…