The four locations the grooming gang inquiry will focus on first

• London, Oldham, Bradfor and Keighley will be the initial focus of the grooming gangs inquiry.
• The £65 million probe will investigate how grooming gangs operated and the responses of police, councils, health services, social care, and schools.
• The inquiry aims to identify serious failures in the response to child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs in these areas.
• Baroness Anne Longfield, former children’s commissioner for England, is leading the inquiry, which possesses legal powers to compel evidence.
• Any evidence of crimes uncovered during the inquiry will be referred to Operation Beaconport, a national police operation.

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Grooming gang inquiry announces first locations it will focus on