The UK's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, announced on Thursday that a budget of nearly 6 million euros would be allocated to fund new local investigations into the scandal that has affected dozens of towns in central and northern England since 2000.

Britain's Home Secretary announced there would be a number of new local inquiries into decade-old allegations of child grooming, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings.

Elon Musk forced the Government into commissioning new grooming gangs inquiries, a minister has admitted. Chris Bryant, a junior culture minister, said it was “certainly true” that the billionaire owner of X had “expedited” fresh investigations into the scandal.

The government today announced a new national-level "rapid audit" of grooming gangs, plus up to five new local inquiries. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the government will launch a national three-month audit, led by Dame Louise Casey, which will examine "cultural and societal drivers" of child sexual exploitation.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said local reviews would provide more answers and change than a nationwide probe. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper addresses the House of Commons on child abuse and ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has hit back at Elon Musk, following a barrage of ... furor largely stoked by the world’s richest man Elon Musk. In a statement to lawmakers, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government has also authorized what ...

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Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. LONDON – Britain's government said Thursday that it will support a series of local inquiries into cases of organized child sexual abuse in the wake of a ...

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UK Interior minister Yvette Cooper also said several new local inquiries into cases of abuse would be launched, bowing to political pressure for further action but stopping short of demands for a new nationwide inquiry.

A former Greater Manchester Police detective who resigned from the force in 2012 to expose the Rochdale grooming scandal has told The i Paper the Government’s plans to address child sexual abuse are “painfully inadequate”.