Sir Keir Starmer ordered a national inquiry after pressure from opposition parties

The prime minister has bowed to pressure to agree to set up an inquiry into grooming gangs with legal powers to call witnesses

New probe and statutory public inquiry will be a means to get ‘truth and justice’, home secretary says

At last Sir Keir Starmer has announced a national inquiry into the mass-rape gangs prowling the streets of our towns and cities to target young girls for sex. And not before time.

PM forced to cave in to clamour for statutory inquiry despite earlier dismissing them as amplifying far right demands

The review by Baroness Casey is expected to conclude that years of warnings about abuse of white girls were 'institutionally ignored for fear of racism'.

The Labour Party was adamant that a national investigation was unnecessary but Baroness Casey’s review has forced yet another about-turn

Yvette Cooper revealed details of a national investigation that Sir Keir Starmer had ruled out before the Casey report forced a rethink

Sir Keir Starmer bowed to months of mounting pressure over the issue ahead of the publication of a new report by Louise Casey

A full statutory inquiry into UK grooming gangs will soon begin work

The danger is this will be another inquiry allowed to grind on for years at great cost and to little avail

National inquiry to be launched following review into scandal in which young and vulnerable girls were exploited for sex

Failings of UK institutions to protect young girls from grooming gangs will remain high on political agenda for years

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said that those who had suffered 'despicable crimes' had been 'let down' by the authorities.

From institutional failures to cowardice, Baroness Casey’s review has blown the establishment cover-up apart

Baroness Casey reveals large proportion of live investigations involve foreign nationals

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

It was described by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as 'a timeline of failure from 2009 to 2025' which shamed Britain.

Baroness Casey last night hit out at 'do-gooders' who tried to bury the facts of such cases, yet only ended up giving racists 'more ammunition'.

Baroness Casey vented fury at the failure to tackle the issues over a decade, saying she was 'raging' on behalf of the victims.

Sir Keir Starmer’s grooming gang inquiry does not go far enough, victims and campaigners have said.