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WHITEHALL
Concerns over Whitehall delay to grooming plea
By Dan Peters | 31 March 2026
Home Affairs Committee chair Dame Karen Bradley has raised concerns over Whitehall delays in demanding councils preserve records related to grooming gangs.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Review finds council failures ahead of Sara Sharif murder
By William Eichler | 14 November 2025
Children’s services in Surrey failed to identify abuse suffered by 10-year-old Sara Sharif before...
HUMAN RIGHTS
Fears over lack of teeth behind mandatory reporting duty
By Neil Merrick | 14 July 2025
Government plans to make it a mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse need to be backed up wi...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Preventing abuse from happening must be our ultimate goal
By Rachael Wardell | 04 July 2025
As leaders of children’s services prepare to gather for their annual conference next week, Rachae...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councils warned to be 'open to scrutiny' in grooming gangs inquiry
By Martin Ford | 17 June 2025
There has been a ‘collective failure’ to address questions about the ethnicity of perpetrators wh...
POLITICS
Starmer announces grooming gangs statutory inquiry
By Dan Peters | 16 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he will launch a statutory inquiry into the grooming ga...
CHILD ABUSE
Abuse audit delayed
By Martin Ford | 03 June 2025
A nationwide audit of child abuse has been delayed, safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has confi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
EXCLUSIVE: LGA tells councils to hold fire on grooming response
By Dan Peters | 22 May 2025
The Local Government Association (LGA) has urged councils not to respond to a request from a priv...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councils could be forced into abuse inquiries
By Martin Ford | 29 April 2025
Councils could be forced to take part in local inquiries into child abuse.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Has the time passed for more inquiries?
By Rebecca Foulkes | 03 February 2025
Rebecca Foulkes asks if the Government’s new proposals are enough to combat grooming and child se...
CHILD ABUSE
Questions over grooming inquiries' legal backing
By Martin Ford | 17 January 2025
Concern has been raised over the legal backing for local inquiries into child sexual exploitation.
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