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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
George Lithgow

Grooming gangs inquiry should probe every UK council and police force – victim

Sammy Woodhouse is a survivor of the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal (PA) - (PA Archive)

A child sexual exploitation survivor has urged the grooming gangs inquiry to investigate every council and police force in the UK after the probe outlined its terms of reference.

Rotherham abuse victim Sammy Woodhouse said the inquiry’s scope should be expanded to include the period before 1996 because the issue “goes back many more decades”.

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