A loophole in the licensing system makes it easy to dodge stringent checks introduced following the abuse of girls in towns like Rotherham ...

A police force that had to apologise to victims over decades of failure over grooming gangs is now investigating more than 1,000 suspects, a watchdog has said. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has made ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the government will now require ethnicity and nationality data to be collected for all ...

British newspaper The Guardian has not published an article criticising the Labour government’s grooming gangs inquiry for being Islamophobic, contrary to online posts.

One key data gap highlighted by the report is on ethnicity, which is described as "appalling" and a "major failing". It says ...

The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse was the largest inquiry in UK history, running from 2015 to 2022 and investigating institutional failures in preventing child sexual abuse. The ...

The new inquiry into grooming gangs will be statutory, meaning investigators will have special powers to compel testimony or release of certain forms of evidence. Examples of recent statutory ...

Grooming gangs continue to pose a threat around the country, but the methods of targeting children are increasingly moving ...

National inquiry must improve safeguarding systems and practices to tackle child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs, say ...

GMP has made 'significant improvements', but still face issues in fighting 'devastating' child sexual exploitation, the ...

The new inspection report scrutinised how the force and its safeguarding partners responded to 74 individuals identified as ...