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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.

Baroness Louise Casey said questions about ethnicity had been ‘dodged for years’.

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Baroness Casey found ‘deep-rooted failures’ to protect children from rape, exploitation, and violence, with continued fragmentation in the authorities' response

A ‘deeply disturbing’ report found organisations avoided race for fear of appearing racist or inflaming community tensions, Yvette Cooper said

The Home Secretary said ‘we cannot shy away’ from findings which let the criminality of a minority of men to be used to marginalise whole communities.

A nationwide police operation to track down grooming gang members has been announced by the Home Office.

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