The Latest Breaking News on The Guardian view on violence against women and girls: the grooming gangs inquiry should be part of a wider strategy

Victims told her they are unable to live the lives they wanted and continued to see their abusers walk free.

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

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

The Government has now ordered a new national inquiry into grooming gangs after the shocking findings

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 is set to address Parliament over the review as the Prime Minister has committed to a national inquiry.

The 15-year-old was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, on December 2020 after being wrongly being accused of carrying cannabis.

Well, it’s hats off to Elon Musk then, isn’t it? What are the chances that the PM would actually have commissioned and now agreed to Dame Louise Casey’s report recommending a proper national inquiry into the mass rape of white girls – some as young as 12 – by men…