Timeline of grooming cases and investigations in recent years
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In the same year, a separate report finds hundreds of girls may have been sexually exploited after authorities repeatedly failed to tackle grooming gangs responsible for “indescribably awful” abuse in Oxfordshire over 16 years. – 2020 Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins apologises to the children abused “in plain sight” by the grooming gangs his officers failed to bring to justice. In October, the seven-year Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse publishes its final report, describing the sexual abuse of children as an “epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of victims in its poisonous wake”. – 2024 A report published in January concludes girls were “left at the mercy” of paedophile grooming gangs in Rochdale for years because of failings by senior police and council bosses.
History of this topic
Has there been a UK grooming gangs inquiry, what were the results and why are there calls for a new one?
The Independent
Chair of child sexual abuse inquiry calls for government to act
The Independent
Has there been a UK grooming gangs inquiry, what were the results and why are there calls for a new one?
The Independent
Police probe second alleged victim over claims Princess Diana's brother was sexually abused by a matron while at boarding school
Daily Mail)
UK: Police's inadequate reaction enabled paedophile grooming gangs to abuse girls in Rochdale
Firstpost
‘Anger’ over Rochdale grooming failures
The Independent
Braverman grooming gang remarks cost her Baker backing – report
The Independent
UK: Muslim groups upset over Suella Braverman's statement that British Pakistani men formed grooming gangs to rape children
Op India
The UK government annouces clamp down on Pakistani Grooming gangs
Op India)
The threat of UK’s grooming gangs that abuse children and Rishi Sunak’s planned crackdown
Firstpost
Braverman: Child sex abuse reporting duty will overcome ‘political correctness’
The Independent
UK child sex grooming gangs given free hand for fear of racial tensions
Op India
Nearly 19,000 children sexually abused in England in the past year
Op India
Grooming ‘epidemic’ as almost 19,000 children identified as sexual exploitation victims in England
The IndependentDiscover Related
Child Welfare Council to take corrective measures over toddler's torture in Thiruvananthapuram
New Indian Express
