Following collective pressure to do the right thing, the UK is preparing to launch a fresh investigation into the shocking subject of grooming gangs.  According to the government, the new inquiry will ‘get justice’ for those that fell through the cracks in mass institutional failures.
The Lowdown
Following months of collective pressure, Prime Minister Kier Starmer has launched a fresh national operation to investigate grooming gangs and an additional query as to the institutional failures that followed many of these cases. The fresh look comes as the National Crime Agency (the top investigative body in the country) has been asked to lead a coordinated push to reopen child sex abuse cases and further identify potential offenders who may have flown under the radar.
In a shocking stat, some reports show that at least 800 such cases all involving abuses against young girls and other have been reopened in the country since January. Officials are hoping to scale that up to bring the worst of the worst vile criminals to justice.
What’s next?
The query according to reports will focus on local councils, police forces, and even elected officials — highlighting how a collective failure occurred when young girls across the UK should have been protected. Some of the complaints were full on mishandled or ignored entirely. Many of these powers for this query involve the use of the 2005 Inquiries Act.