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

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 Scottish Conservatives have called for an inquiry into grooming gangs to be extended to Scotland.

Ignoring ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators gives racists ‘more ammunition’, says Baroness Casey

The new inquiry needs a sharp focus on the reality of this horrific abuse. A process hijacked by opportunists will only fail victims again, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Baroness Casey’s review into the grooming gangs scandal was published on Monday, and criticised the lack of data on the ethnicity of offenders.

Public inquiry will examine repeated failures that prevented abuse against children being properly investigated

Liberal Democrat MP Josh Babarinde told the Commons he was ‘disgusted’ by the Conservative leader’s ‘party political assault’.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The government’s decision to launch a full statutory inquiry into historic grooming cases is long overdue. Thousands of girls were failed not only by their abusers but by the very institutions and individuals meant to protect them. At last, a national reckoning is underway

The UK government announced Monday it would bring in tough new laws to "root out the scourge" of grooming gangs and apologised to thousands of victims believed to have been sexually exploited.

A ‘vigorous approach to righting wrongs of the past’ is needed along with tougher laws for crimes against children