The Latest Breaking News from Louise Casey

Health Secretary Wes Streeting thanked people for ‘putting politics aside to find a way forward’.

Home Office minister Jess Phillips told MPs the appointment process was in its ‘final stages’.

Watchdog says Greater Manchester Police has made ‘significant improvements’ following years of failure.

Sir Keir Starmer’s Government also U-turned on winter fuel payments and an inquiry into grooming gangs.

Letters: Too many care homes follow procedure but don’t take a personal interest in children’s wellbeing, says John Burton, while Brigid Featherstone says invaluable data around child protection isn’t being collected. Plus a letter from Simon Tweed

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 inquiry’s final report included 20 recommendations for change. So far, zero have been fully implemented.

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The announcement follows a series of recommendations by Baroness Casey made in her audit on 'grooming gangs', which found that Asian men were overrepresented in three local areas – but more data was needed to gain a national picture.

The report addressed the UK’s institutional failure to protect children and teenage girls from sexual exploitation.