Grooming gangs

Rotherham town centre. Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Illustrative only.

Status · Statutory national inquiry under way

What happened

Group-based child sexual exploitation in towns across England. Baroness Casey's national audit was published by the Home Office on 16 June 2025, and the government then announced a statutory national inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005.

Written from the official records below. Links checked 08 Nov 2026.

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Official record

National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Home Office (Baroness Casey) · published 16 Jun 2025
Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (collection)
Home Office · published 31 Mar 2026
About the Inquiry
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Yvette Cooper tells MPs Louise Casey's grooming gangs audit 'damning'
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Casey tells public to 'keep calm' over ethnicity of offenders after grooming gangs report
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