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Scottish Grooming Gangs Inquiry to Start Next Week
The inquiry will examine state failures, concealment of evidence and perpetrator patterns, and it will recommend stronger child protections in Scotland.
- On Wednesday, November 11, Scotland's independent statutory inquiry chaired by Professor Alexis Jay begins investigating group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation spanning from 1996 to the present day.
- The Scottish Government ordered this inquiry in February, eight months after England and Wales launched a similar investigation, prompted by a lack of reliable national data on grooming gang offending.
- Education Secretary Mairi McAllan said the inquiry holds the "strongest possible powers" to investigate institutional failures, yet Tory MSP Meghan Gallacher criticized the "lack of urgency" after survivors waited decades for justice.
- Liberal Democrat MSP Duncan Dunlop expressed concern the inquiry might produce "another set of recommendations" rather than meaningful change, while McAllan promised the work will "ensure it cannot happen again."
- The Scottish Government is simultaneously funding Police Scotland's Operation Decerno to strengthen child protections, while the inquiry analyzes perpetrator characteristics to develop stronger safeguards and identify necessary policy reforms.
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