A council has joined calls for the government to launch a national inquiry into grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation. At a full council meeting, North Northamptonshire Council urged the government to address concerns about perceived institutional shortcomings in tackling the crimes.

Nigel Farage has renewed calls for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, criticising the Jay Review as inadequate. Speaking at Reform UK’s North West conference, he claimed a targeted investigation was needed into what he described as “deeply racist” crimes.

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked a Conservative Party amendment that would have forced a nationwide inquiry into the decades-long

A grooming gang victim has pledged to fight for a new national inquiry into the scandal. Elizabeth Harper, who was abused in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, told a Reform UK conference in Chester that Britain “needs to see how far this actually goes”.

Here's how all seven Oxfordshire MPs voted on the call for a new inquiry into grooming gangs and sexual exploitation in Parliament last week.

MPs in Berkshire have voted on a push to launch a new public inquiry into grooming gangs and the sexual exploitation of vulnerable women and girls.