By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-17 06:00:50 | Updated at 2025-01-17 13:39:08
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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced her plan for Government-backed local inquiries into grooming gangs yesterday.
With Labour under increasing pressure to launch a national Public Inquiry into the rape gangs scandal, Cooper finally laid out the Government's measures for "pursuing justice" for the victims of the nationwide outrage.
The Home Office unveiled plans to provide £10million in funding to tackle grooming gangs and better support victims and survivors to pursue justice.
They will also urge Chief Constables in England and Wales to look into historic grooming gangs cases, widen the remit of the independent Child Sexual Abuse Review Panel to ensure more victims can request a review of their cases and "immediately" improve ethnicity data collection through working with the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce.
Revamped plans will also look to roll out a three-month "rapid audit" led by Baroness Louise Casey, independent of the Home Office.
They will release a clear timetable for taking forward the recommendations in the final IICSA report by April 20 and additional national support for local inquiries, including funding to support local areas to develop Telford-style inquiries, supported by Tom Crowther KC.
Oldham Council and four more pilot areas will test and develop that new approach, the Home Office says.
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