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Standard exclusive investigation: Inside London’s grooming gang shame

Police failure. Institutional cover-up. Establishment silence: The real story of London’s harrowing grooming gang epidemic

Evening Standard

UK grooming gang inquiry faces further disruption as candidate for leader withdraws

Former Lambeth children’s services director Annie Hudson pulls out following intense media coverage

The Guardian - UK

‘Damning’ review of anti-Black racism within Met police ‘buried’ by force

Exclusive: External consultancy report found discrimination ‘baked into HR systems’ at London force

The Guardian - UK

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Met plunged into crisis amid fresh claims of misogyny and racism

Commissioner Mark Rowley says prejudice has ‘put down deep roots’ within force after BBC Panorama investigation

The Guardian - UK

‘Many adult social care services failing to help people live healthier lives’

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) said a radical rethink is needed of adult social care in England.

The Independent UK

Met police investigate possible vetting errors over 300 recruits

Exclusive: Force examining whether hundreds of recruits had substandard or no checks before being allowed to join

The Guardian - UK

Calls for ‘pension-style’ tax to help fund social care sector

The Social Care Foundation acknowledged such a new levy would be ‘politically unpopular with some groups’

The Independent UK

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Baroness Casey ‘keen to crack on’ after first cross-party social care talks

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

The Independent UK

Ministers accused of making ‘almost no progress’ on grooming gangs inquiry

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

Evening Standard

Downing Street shake-up: who’s in and who’s out at No 10

Departures and new hires expected to give PM more direct oversight of delivery of key government priorities

The Guardian - UK

Five Met Police detectives arrested over ‘plot to bury Christmas party sex assault’

Suspects’ homes and the stations where they worked were raided last week Tuesday, watchdog confirms

Evening Standard

Police force investigating more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects

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

The Independent UK

Greater Manchester Police investigating 1,000 grooming gang suspects, watchdog says

Andy Burnham said ‘never again will any child here be labelled or dismissed’ after a report found significant improvements in the force’s response to grooming gangs

The Independent UK

GMP better on grooming gangs as more than 1,000 suspects under investigation

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

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

Government climbdown on welfare Bill marks third U-turn this month

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

The Guardian - UK

Casey review: wider concerns on child welfare must be addressed

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 Conversation

What the new grooming gangs inquiry must do to put victims before politics

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.

The Guardian - UK

Grooming gang survivors say political ‘tug of war’ must stop before inquiry

Exclusive: Telford survivors say people are ‘exploiting the exploited’ and push for women to shape new investigation

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Euronews

Police in England and Wales to collect ethnicity data in child sexual abuse cases

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.

Al Jazeera

What is the Casey report on UK ‘grooming gangs’, and why did Labour U-turn?

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

The Conversation

The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’

The announcement of a national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation raises urgent questions: How did we end up here again? Haven’t there been enough reports? Why weren’t children protected the first time? And will these reforms actually change anything?

The Guardian - UK

Kemi’s experiment in kindness is a sorry sight to behold

Tory leader fails to find a sensitive side as she flails alongside parents and survivors of child abuse gangs

The Independent UK

Starmer hits back at Badenoch over grooming scandal, claiming Tories did nothing

Sir Keir Starmer asked ‘why on earth’ Mrs Badenoch did not bring forward a duty for authorities to report child sexual exploitation in power.

The Guardian - UK

Dear Yvette Cooper, let the Casey review lead to justice – not the scapegoating of British Pakistani culture

The findings of the audit on child sexual exploitation and abuse are being dangerously politicised – and bringing fear to my community, says Zara Mohammed, former secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain

The Guardian - UK

Public must ‘keep calm’ over ethnicity of grooming gang offenders, says Louise Casey

Report author cautions against misuse of limited data finding ‘over-representation’ of Asian heritage men

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