Grooming gangs inquiry: how will it help victims and affect the law?

Lady Casey’s report says that victims should be treated as children, having been previously dismissed as promiscuous or wayward. Photograph: Adam Gray/SWNS.com

The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said she will commission a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs and enact a series of law changes. The announcement was made after a 197-page report was compiled by Lady Casey examining what more could be done to bring perpetrators to justice. Here are the key points from the report.

A national inquiry coordinating a series of targeted local investigations