Inquiry will compel individuals and institutions to explain what they did or did not do to protect children from sexual abuse

The £65million probe is investigating how grooming gangs operated and how police, councils, health services, social care services and schools responded.

The first places to be investigated by the Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs will be Oldham, Bradford and Keighley, and London, with more areas to be confirmed soon

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Inquiry will compel individuals and institutions to explain what they did or did not do to protect children from sexual abuse

A national inquiry into grooming gangs has announced that investigations will begin in Oldham, Bradford, Keighley and London as part of its first phase.

Oldham, London, Bradford and Keighley will be the first places to be investigated by the grooming gangs inquiry, chaired by former children's commissioner Anne Longfield.