Cooper Announces Statutory National Inquiry on Rape Gangs

Cooper has announced in the Commons “a new national inquiry to direct local investigations and hold institutions to account for past failures.” This will be a time-limited inquiry led by an independent commission and not “over-arching.” The home secretary says “we will set out the further details on the national inquiry in due course”…

This comes along with other moves from the government:

• Collection of new “ethnicity data and research so we face up to the facts on exploitation and abuse.