The key takeaways
- The Standard has uncovered reports which show girls from London in care were repeatedly groomed, sexually assaulted and found with groups of men after going missing
- Charity workers, social workers, lawyers, safeguarding professionals and victims have said grooming gangs are widespread in the capital
- Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Assembly Members in City Hall that Scotland Yard has a “steady flow” of ongoing multi-offender child sexual exploitation investigations
- A government-ordered audit into the grooming gangs scandal this year found there is “mismatch” in the way the Met and London local authorities record child sexual abuse
