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Timeline of grooming cases and investigations in recent years

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced on Thursday that the Government will commission a series of local reviews into grooming gangs.

The Independent UK

What did the child sexual abuse inquiry say about grooming gangs?

The £186.6 million inquiry, set up in 2015, looked at 15 areas scrutinising institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

The Independent UK

UK politics latest: Majority of Labour voters oppose Starmer on grooming gangs inquiry, poll finds

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has also suggested he favours a ‘limited national inquiry’

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Former child abuse inquiry chairwoman urges Government to act over 2022 report

Professor Alexis Jay distanced herself from demands for a new independent inquiry.

Evening Standard

Chair of child sexual abuse inquiry calls for government to act

The Greater Manchester mayor pointed to an ongoing review into the scandal in Manchester which he launched after being elected in 2017, but said he would support a national inquiry if the government deemed one necessary

The Independent UK

Starmer expected to face questions about Musk’s grooming gang criticism

Sir Keir Starmer has so far not spoken to defend his record since the slew of online posts from the tech billionaire.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform

It is unclear what prompted Musk to write on X that Farage ‘doesn’t have what it takes’ to be Reform UK’s leader

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Cooper defends Phillips as ‘fearless’ advocate after Musk criticism

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said minister Jess Phillips had ‘campaigned tirelessly’ on behalf of those that had been failed by institutions.

Evening Standard

Reform UK would launch grooming gangs inquiry if elected, chairman says

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised by Elon Musk over the issue.

Evening Standard

Whistleblower says Starmer ‘perhaps as guilty as anyone’ over grooming gang failures

Maggie Oliver criticised previous inquiries into the scandal

The Independent UK

Whistleblower says Starmer ‘guilty as anyone’ over grooming gang failures

Maggie Oliver criticised previous inquiries into the scandal.

Evening Standard

Will there be a new grooming gangs inquiry and what did the previous one find?

Labour government facing pressure over its response to grooming gangs

The Independent UK

Why are Elon Musk and Kemi Badenoch calling for a grooming scandal inquiry and why is Labour rejecting it?

The background to the inquiries that have been done and why the Home Office Minister has refused calls for a fresh investigation into historic child sexual abuse

Evening Standard

Elon Musk grooming attacks ‘misjudged and misinformed’, Wes Streeting says

The Health Secretary offered an olive branch to tech billionaire Mr Musk, urging him to work with the UK Government to tackle online child abuse.

Evening Standard

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Ministers hit back at Elon Musk as tech billionaire steps up attack on Keir Starmer over grooming gangs

Health minister Andrew Gwynne said the Tesla tycoon should focus on US politics as row over inquiry intensifies

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Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament in latest attack on UK Government

ELON Musk has continued his criticism of the Government, calling on the King to step in and dissolve Parliament...

Evening Standard

Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament over grooming gangs

The tech billionaire has continued his social media criticism of Sir Keir Starmer for the Government’s handling of the UK’s ‘rape gangs scandal’.

The Guardian - UK

Ex-chief prosecutor rejects Musk’s calls for new child abuse inquiry

Nazir Afzal and police whistleblower Maggie Oliver say previous lengthy inquiries were not acted upon

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Evening Standard

Musk attacks Starmer as Badenoch calls for grooming gangs inquiry

Tesla boss Elon Musk issued a series of attacks on Sir Keir Starmer as the Tories called for a national inquiry into grooming gangs

Evening Standard

Badenoch calls for inquiry into ‘rape gang scandal’ as Oldham probe denied

The Conservative Party leader made the call in a post on X and argued that a public inquiry into organised grooming gangs is ‘long overdue’.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch calls for national inquiry into UK’s ‘rape gangs scandal’

The Conservative Party leader made the call in a post to X on Thursday, arguing that ‘2025 must be the year that the victims start to get justice’.

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the Church of England: how does it recover after its annus horribilis?

A new Anglican leader must reinvent the role if they are to restore faith in an institution mired in sexual abuse scandals

Evening Standard

Independent safeguarding ‘only way to restore trust’ in Church of England

Professor Alexis Jay was made a CBE at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Archbishop of Canterbury resigns - live: Welby’s Lords seat in doubt amid calls for Labour to refuse peerage

Mr Welby said it was ‘very clear’ he must take responsibility and regretted the Church’s historic failures

The Guardian - UK

UK government could miss chance to protect children, says ex-inquiry chair

Alexis Jay says she is still pressing ministers to introduce mandatory reporting of allegations in England and Wales

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