There were heated exchanges as councillors debated calls for Blackpool to be part of a national inquiry into child grooming ...

Government urged to introduce tougher sentences for grooming gang offenders - Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick was ...

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Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has been accused of “stonewalling” questions about whether London has a problem with so-called “grooming gangs”. His Tory rival Susan Hall made nine successive attempts at Mayor’s ...

But Sir Sadiq repeatedly asked Ms Hall, the former Tory mayoral candidate, to clarify what she meant by grooming gangs, claiming: “I’m not clear what she means.” He said young people were ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has "utterly rejected" the idea a new series of grooming gangs inquiries have been set up because of pressure from Elon Musk. In recent weeks, multi-billionaire Musk ...

Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has been accused of “stonewalling” questions about whether London has a problem with so-called “grooming gangs”. His Tory rival Susan Hall made nine successive ...

One can almost hear the gears grinding as they hum and haw towards a response. In the case of grooming gangs, they need to clearly state why what they are doing constitutes an appropriate response ...

Yvette Cooper has announced a “rapid national audit” into the scale and nature of grooming gangs across the country amid growing calls from MPs for a new inquiry. The home secretary also ...

Outlining a new plan to tackle grooming gangs in the Commons, Yvette Cooper revealed the government would fund five local inquiries into child sexual exploitation as part of a pilot, which could ...

A multimillion-pound plan for local inquiries into grooming gangs has been announced by the government, a day after the home secretary was threatened with legal action over the issue. Five new ...