Sir Keir Starmer to launch new national inquiry into grooming gangs

Sir Keir Starmer is to motorboat a caller nationalist enquiry into grooming gangs.

It comes aft a government-requested audit into the standard of grooming gangs crossed the state concluded a nationwide probe was necessary.

The premier curate antecedently argued a nationalist enquiry was not necessary, but has changed his presumption pursuing an audit into group-based kid intersexual maltreatment led by Baroness Casey, which is acceptable to beryllium published adjacent week.

"[Baroness Casey's] presumption erstwhile she started the audit was that determination was not a existent request for a nationalist enquiry implicit and supra what was going on," helium told reporters travelling with him to the G7 acme successful Canada.

"She has looked astatine the material... and she has travel to the presumption that determination should beryllium a nationalist enquiry connected the ground of what she has seen.

"I person work each azygous connection of her report, and I americium going to judge her recommendation. That is the close happening to bash connected the ground of what she has enactment successful her audit.

"I asked her to bash that occupation to treble cheque connected this; she has done that occupation for me, and having work her report... I shall present instrumentality her recommendations."

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The adjacent 200-page study is to beryllium published adjacent week and is expected to pass that achromatic British girls were "institutionally ignored for fearfulness of racism".

One idiosyncratic acquainted with the study said it details the organization failures successful treating young girls and cites a decennary of mislaid enactment from the Jay Review, acceptable up successful 2014 to analyse grooming gangs successful Rotherham.

The study is besides expected to nexus amerciable migration with the exploitation of young girls.

The authorities had initially resisted a caller inquiry, insisting that it archetypal wanted to instrumentality recommendations from erstwhile inquiries, specified arsenic the Jay Review, into kid intersexual exploitation.

It besides allowed 5 councils to acceptable up their ain investigations into their communities alternatively than clasp a nationalist inquiry.

The grooming pack ungraded came backmost into the headlines astatine the opening of the twelvemonth aft Elon Musk attacked Sir Keir and safeguarding curate Jess Philips for failing children.

The premier curate and Ms Phillips deed back, with Sir Keir citing his grounds of prosecuting abusers arsenic manager of nationalist prosecutions, portion Ms Phillips has agelong been a campaigner against home violence.

At the time, she told Sky News that Mr Musk's claims were "ridiculous" and that she would beryllium led by what victims person to say, not him.

Following the enactment betwixt the tech billionaire and the UK government, the premier curate asked Baroness Casey to behaviour an audit of each the grounds to spot if a nationalist enquiry was required.

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Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said: "Keir Starmer doesn't cognize what helium thinks unless an authoritative study has told him so.

"Just similar helium dismissed concerns astir the wintertime substance outgo and past had to U-turn, conscionable similar helium needed the Supreme Court to archer him what a pistillate is, helium had to beryllium led by the chemoreceptor to marque this close determination here.

"I've been repeatedly calling for a afloat nationalist enquiry since January. It's astir clip helium recognised helium made a mistake and apologise for six wasted months.

"But this indispensable not beryllium the extremity of the matter. There are many, galore much questions that request answering to guarantee this enquiry is done decently and quickly.

"Many survivors of the grooming gangs volition beryllium relieved that this is yet happening, but they request a solution soon, not successful 10 years' time. Justice delayed is justness denied."