0h 10min, dec 9, 2025 y - Grooming Gang Inquiry

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A former children's commissioner will chair the inquiry into child sexual abuse by grooming gangs in what will be a "moment of reckoning", Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced.

Baroness Anne Longfield will lead the inquiry, which was derailed when four women resigned from its survivors panel and two leading candidates to chair the investigation pulled out.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said "we must root out this evil once and for all" as she told the Commons the peer would lead the three-year inquiry.

The prime minister announced the inquiry for England and Wales in June after accepting the recommendation of Baroness Louise Casey's audit into group-based child sexual abuse.

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