MEGA-THREAD: "Groomer" and "Grooming Gang" homophobic and racial scratching post

[Jim Burton]

GB News, Grooming gangs: Rupert Lowe's £600k inquiry hears shock claims of 'Eid rapes' and police cover-ups: 'Barbarians!'

https://www.gbnews.com/news/grooming-ga ... -eid-rapes

[Jim Burton]

Anti-Grooming Gang Activist Tommy Robinson Flees Britain After Alleged ISIS Threat

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/0 ... is-threat/

[Jim Burton]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commen ... dd9bc3c82a

So forgive me for failing to be reassured by the information that there will also be “critical examination of community-led approaches to inclusive communication”.

University culture spills out into other areas of life. The University of Sydney, for example, uses a similar alphabet soup to describe its “queer” students. Its website states that the university supports “staff and students of all genders, sexualities and sex characteristics”.

I’m not sure what they mean by that, but bearing in mind that in recent years MAP (for “minor-attracted person”) has been added to the mix, presumably pedophiles are included too. And it’s anybody’s guess what support “asexual” people (who’d rather have a cup of tea than a roll in the hay) need from their university.

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Court archive revealing extent of grooming gangs scandal to be deleted: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/0 ... candal-to/

HM Courts and Tribunal Service accuses Courtsdesk of ‘unauthorised sharing’ of data but critics say vital evidence will be lost forever

An archive of court records providing insights into the true scale of the grooming gangs scandal is to be deleted on Thursday.
At the end of 2025 Courtsdesk, a data analysis company that supports media and campaigners in monitoring court records, was ordered by the Government to delete its archive, a crucial tool for researchers and journalists covering the justice system.
HM Courts and Tribunal Service issued the company with a cessation notice in November 2025, accusing it of “unauthorised sharing” of court data, a claim disputed by Courtsdesk.
On Wednesday, Courtsdesk said all legal options had been exhausted and that “unless told otherwise”, on Thursday it would delete the searchable archive compiled from more than 4.8 million court records provided under an agreement with the Ministry of Justice five years ago.

It also revealed the evidence contained within the archive about grooming gangs will, from Thursday, be “permanently lost” not only to journalists, researchers and civil society but also to the public inquiry into the scandal set up by Sir Keir Starmer in 2025.
Courtsdesk’s analysis showed the archive contained 25,118 child sexual abuse cases involving some 24,670 unique defendants across 153 courts in England and Wales.
More than 1,100 anonymised victims were each linked to two or more defendants. Nine victims were each linked to 10 or more separate defendants.
It also revealed how far back the cases went, giving an indication of the scale of the grooming. More than 5,115 cases had a gap of more than 10 years between the recorded offence date and the first court listing. Nearly 1,500 cases had a gap of more than 20 years.
It demonstrated how groomers were convicted in separate prosecutions involving two or more scandals, sometimes in different locations. Some 469 defendants appeared in two or more separate child sexual abuse cases with different case numbers and 178 of these appeared at different courts for their separate cases.

“Every finding in this report – victims linked to multiple defendants across separate cases, the specific locations where offences took place mapped to reveal geographic patterns of predatory behaviour, offences taking decades to reach court, repeat offenders appearing in different jurisdictions – depends on data being retained and connected over time,” said Enda Leahy, the company’s founder.
“If the archive is destroyed these connections will be permanently lost, not only to the media organisations that use Courtsdesk to report on the courts but also to civil society, researchers and the public inquiry itself.”
The data covered 153 courts. Locations named in Baroness Casey’s review of the scandal and the inquiry’s terms of reference all featured in the dataset including Bradford, Oxford, Rochdale, Rotherham, Oldham and Telford.

Nick Timothy, a shadow justice secretary, said: “Once the Courtsdesk records vanish so too does the ability to trace patterns of wrongdoing or help victims who faced injustice.
“These findings prove the value of accurate court data. Analysis of repeat defendants, cross-boundary offending and case progression shows the depth of insight that becomes possible when court records are accessible and easily scrutinised. It is essential that work is preserved.
“Transparency means accountability, and accountability means justice. Narrowing access to court information makes it easier for injustice to thrive. Labour must change course before this archive is lost forever.”

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Teenage girls lured into forced sex by gangs in London, BBC finds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd9xnjyy8po

Vulnerable women and girls as young as 14 are being lured into a world of forced sex by gangs in London, evidence uncovered by the BBC has found.
Some told us they had been raped by several men as "payment" for unpaid drug debts run up by the gangs that controlled them, while others said they had been groomed just for sex.
Our evidence - based on interviews with dozens of people in the capital over several weeks, including five survivors of gang-based violence - also shows how girls are often lured by groups of men into dealing drugs, trading weapons and stealing phones.
One police officer in London said young girls and women were the "lowest rung" in gangs and were groomed and exploited "for everything".
Public attention on grooming gangs has often centred on the north of England. A government-commissioned report last year found in three regions - Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire - there was enough evidence to show "disproportionate numbers of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds amongst suspects for group-based child sexual exploitation".
Our investigation reveals a complex picture in London, with gangs from a range of ethnic backgrounds, including white, operating widely in the capital and frequently exploiting young women.
Last year, Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan said there was no "indication of […] grooming gangs" - of the type seen in Rotherham and other towns - operating in the capital.
However, a spokesperson for Sir Sadiq recently told the BBC he wanted to support police to do everything possible to tackle "all child sexual exploitation in the capital, including grooming gangs".

'I didn't think I was a victim'

Kelly, not her real name, said she had been groomed by three white men in the capital. She was initially forced to deal drugs but said the exploitation then got worse.
"I had no money, felt neglected and saw an opportunity to feel part of something so I made some bad connections and before long I was selling drugs on the streets. But that turned into having sex to keep people on side if we owed them, or [as an enticement for them to] buy drugs off me and the gang," she said.
"I didn't feel like I was groomed or exploited. I didn't think I was a victim. It's taken me a while to realise I was used and manipulated.
"It gave my life purpose for a bit and I felt needed," she added. "I didn't feel that at home. I was looking for something because I [was] lonely and bored."
Girls inside gangs "cannot say no to sex", said Det Sgt John Knox, head of the Metropolitan Police child exploitation team in the south London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark.
"Within that gang world, the girls are at the lowest rung and they have to do as they're told. And that includes sexually."
Girls were not exploited, he said, "predominately and primarily for sex" by gangs. He added: "The girls are groomed and exploited for everything - within that is sex."
Knox believes there are at least 60 children in his area of south London who are being exploited by gangs.
He said the girls are as young as 13 but "15 would be the upper limit".
"The reality is, if a girl can't say no, she's being raped and that's how we look at it as the police."

Gang issue 'very high' on Met's 'threat and risk radar'

A mayor of London spokesperson said: "Any individuals, groups or grooming gangs exploiting children for sex are utterly abhorrent and [Sadiq Khan] wants justice for every single victim of these horrific crimes.
"The mayor is clear that the Met must follow the evidence wherever it leads and he will continue to ensure it does everything possible to tackle all child sexual exploitation in the capital, including grooming gangs, to build a safer London for everyone."

Met deputy assistant commissioner Kevin Southworth said the grooming gang issue was "very high" on the force's "threat and risk radar", and it was committed to putting as much of its resource into combatting the problem as much as possible.
"We are very, very acutely aware of the risk of grooming gangs here in London and their prevalence," he added.
"We have seen examples of grooming gangs whether they're grooming children for criminal exploitation or sexual exploitation."

Social workers caring for victims explained to us how many of those exploited were vulnerable because they had come from broken homes or had had other troubled backgrounds like abuse, drugs or poverty.

Milly, not her real name, told the BBC her experience of grooming gangs in London did not involve selling drugs and mirrored what had happened in towns and cities such as Rotherham, Rochdale and Oldham.
"I was 15. I was getting passed around different men every night - sometimes 10 or 15 a month," she said.
"They just give us drink, give us drugs. Next thing I know, I'd just be in the bedroom with one of them. Then I'd come out. Could be another one. After that it could be another one. Sometimes it was only one. Sometimes it could be three. And then we'd just leave really."
She said, even though it had happened a few years ago, she couldn't recall many of the details because she had been so intoxicated at the time.
"I don't remember their names really. It sounds horrible, but I just know they were [South] Asian.
Sometimes they just said, 'Oh, you're a nice, young white girl'."

'They didn't want anything but sex'

Another London survivor, whom we are calling Ruth, said she was also exploited for sex.
"They didn't want anything but sex. I was low and they gave me expensive things so I felt wanted and then slept with them. It felt like I had multiple boyfriends giving me attention. They were South Asian men - they took advantage of my situation.
"It's happening in London," she added. "And those who don't believe it need to look again."
The women we spoke to say their stories prove that not all grooming-gang cases in the city involve drug dealing and other criminality.

However, one solicitor warned against racial generalisations of perpetrators. Alan Collins, from Bolt Burdon Kemp, who specialises in child abuse cases, said he represents several survivors who have been groomed, including women in London.
"I think one needs to be very careful in drawing any conclusions because of the abject failure to record nationally the ethnic background of the men who are convicted of abusing these children and young people," he said.
Police officers, social workers and some of the survivors we have spoken to insist gangs operating in London come from much wider ethnic backgrounds.
"From the reporting that we have, we do not see a disproportionate number of any one particular ethnicity or nationality within our suspects, which straddle the entire diverse range of London's communities, as you would expect in a multinational city like London," said Southworth, the Met's deputy assistant commissioner.
One London victim we spoke to, said her experience involved men of "different races, ages and religions".
About 2,000 child exploitation cases are reported to the Met every year. These relate to child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, or cases where both forms of harm were present.
The Met has already announced it will be re-examining at least 1,200 cases of child sexual exploitation, following a national review into group-based child sexual exploitation.

Independent inquiry

A report by Baroness Casey, published last summer, also found a mismatch in the way the Met recorded child abuse.
The force said there had been significant improvements in how it identifies and investigates group-based offending, including training for 23,000 front-line officers and the expansion of its child exploitation teams.
An independent inquiry into grooming gangs chaired by Baroness Longfield CBE is expected to begin later in the year.
A Home Office spokesperson said the inquiry would have "full powers to compel evidence and hold local investigations".
They said child sexual exploitation cases that had previously been closed were now being reviewed "so the evil perpetrators who committed these crimes - and thought they got away with it - will have nowhere to hide".

[Jim Burton]

The European Conservative, “This Cursed Phenomenon We’re Experiencing” (review of Bothelford’s Gone on grooming gangs)

https://europeanconservative.com/articl ... eriencing/

BBC, Teenage girls lured into forced sex by gangs in London, BBC finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd9xnjyy8po

GB News, Grooming gangs: Robert Jenrick vows to put Pakistan on notice and block visas

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/groomin ... lock-visas

GB News, Grooming gangs: Labour ‘U-turn’ after CourtsDesk data deletion row

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/groomin ... elete-data

UKNIP, Former Met detective says Khan not fit for high office after BBC investigation reveals gang sexual exploitation of girls

https://uknip.co.uk/news/uk/uk-news/for ... s-capital/

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Apparently UK’s prime anti Tommy “10 names” Robinson made up the lie that some Muslim teen boy was part of a “grooming gang” because said boy was bullied and beaten up at school by a white boy, and said white boy was the younger brother of Tommy’s friend, so Tommy defamed the Muslim kid after the bullying went viral online.

At least, that’s what Lauren Southern says in an interview with Richard Hanania, and Lauren worked closely with Tommy so take it as you will, considering that both her and Tommy fell out of favor after Tommy defended Andrew Tate against Lauren in Tate-related SA allegations.
Link: https://xcancel.com/richardhanania/stat ... 7198623199

Btw, this is the bullying case in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almondbur ... g_incident

Lauren also reports that Tommy used to be a drug dealer, which aligns with his generally criminal behaviour ranging from hooliganism, defaming others, fraud, and substance abuse. Further example that pedophobia often acts as a veil to shield criminals from scrutiny?

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Reports of children as young as 11 abused in West Midlands mini-marts, BBC reveals: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzy0y20qlo

A senior council worker repeatedly shared with West Midlands authorities reports of children as young as 11 being sexually abused in High Street mini-marts, the BBC can reveal.
The reports were raised multiple times with police and safeguarding partners over the past 10 years, according to internal Dudley Council documents seen by the BBC.
Extracts from intelligence briefings from 2019 to 2024 also claim that children may have been at risk of being sexually abused after being offered drugs, alcohol and cigarettes in mini-marts.
A West Midlands Police spokesman initially said: "There is currently no evidence to substantiate these claims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) connected to shops in Dudley."
But after further evidence was presented to it today by the BBC, West Midlands Police asked us to use an updated statement which did not contain the claims of "no evidence". It said instead: "We have a robust partnership approach to CSE and safeguarding in the borough and across the wider West Midlands.
"CSE is a serious crime, so we will always act on any information we receive."
David Greenwood, a specialist child abuse lawyer who investigated CSE in Rotherham, says: "It's hard to see how West Midlands Police can categorically deny the existence of evidence.
"We need to remember these are truly serious offences against vulnerable children which must be robustly investigated."
Worries over child abuse on high streets in the West Midlands were repeatedly shared in briefings with members of a child sexual exploitation safeguarding group between 2016 and 2025, according to the council worker.

The briefings compile intelligence from complaints made to Trading Standards by community members and different authorities, as well as intelligence from "regional databases such as Citizens Advice Bureau… Companies House data… and open source research".
The council worker also showed us a log of the times when concerns over CSE in shops in the West Midlands were raised by Trading Standards or police in the safeguarding group.
We understand the members of the group included West Midlands Police, council safeguarding officers and charities.
The council worker outlined that in one briefing from June 2024 a report was shared of an attempt to "lure a child to a flat" after being given free cigarettes.
Concerns were also raised by the worker that a "particular shop that was operated by an organised crime group was targeting young women" between 2016 and 2017.
West Midlands Police itself said it was possible that high street shops in the town of Lye were engaged in CSE in 2019, and requested help from Trading Standards, according to the log seen by the BBC.

Throughout 2019 and 2020 the CSE group discussed high street shops in the town, which was described as a "hot spot" for abuse where "a few children were mentioned being exploited".
Between 2019 and 2024, regular intelligence reports were sent by Trading Standards to the safeguarding group. They highlighted CSE concerns related to "pop-up shops", according to the council worker.
However, in December 2024, police stated that they had "a lack of intelligence and information around CSE and they may not know what is going on", according to the worker.
In the same month, an intelligence report says: "Trading Standards mentioned that 11-year-olds were taken in one pop-up shop to an unknown location via vehicle to collect cigarettes and vapes." The shop was then closed by Trading Standards.
The log also states that in September 2025, Trading Standards asked West Midlands Police to "carry out foreign conviction checks, to see whether the suspects they were investigating had any... sexual offences against children".

In January this year, 41 names were provided to the police, including a man who "was being investigated for rape". The document states that "we understand these checks have not been requested yet by West Midlands Police".
Separately, the BBC has seen sections of Dudley Trading Standards intelligence briefings, dating between 2019 and 2024, which repeatedly raise concerns about child sexual abuse linked to high street shops.
They identify 11 shops and shop workers across the borough where there were concerns of CSE.
A report from Trading Standards in 2024 said workers in a Stourbridge mini-mart were "now selling drugs and giving away these illegal goods to children in return for sexual favours".
Intelligence from 2019 about another mini-mart worker in the West Midlands alleged he had offered "free cigarettes to school girls for a kiss and sexually assaulted a female PCSO in Wales".

One report from September 2023 reads: "These crime groups in Dudley have links to CSE, drug offences, modern day slavery, and have illegal immigrants working on the premises."
On one of the briefing pages it states there were 118 logs of criminal activity, including CSE, found by Trading Standards at one shop in Brierley Hill.
Another law enforcement source, who has worked across the West Midlands, told the BBC that they received intelligence in 2025 that children between 13 and 15 years old were being given vapes from shop workers in return for sex.
They received reports from parents and other shopkeepers, they said, adding that during raids some of the shops "had pull out-beds and bags with women's make-up in it".

Parents and teachers reported concerns that child sexual exploitation was happening along Dudley high street, according to Dudley Trading Standards officer, Kuldeep Maan.
"The information we were getting is that children were coming to this area and were given free cigarettes, free alcohol, in return for sexual favours," he says.
While carrying out raids on shops in the area, he and his team say they have come across concerning signs.
"We were going up to the flats and seeing used condoms everywhere."
Maan says some shops in the area sell nitrous oxide (also known as laughing gas).
To investigate the claim, we sent a female undercover researcher to the borough of Dudley, where a shopworker offered her a canister of laughing gas for £30.
The man wanted the researcher to go back to his home to receive the canisters, but she refused.
A male undercover researcher also visited a mini-mart elsewhere in the West Midlands, where we were told vapes were being sold to children.
Inside, he was offered illegal cigarettes by a man who has been charged with the rape of a woman.

A woman who previously worked in a mini-mart in the West Midlands has told the BBC about being sexually assaulted by a shop worker just after the Covid-19 pandemic.
She describes going into a different mini-mart to buy cigarettes and being touched by a worker, who then tried to drag her into the toilets.
"I screamed and ran out of the shop," says the woman, who was 21 at the time and has now moved out of the area.
She says she was touched and propositioned for sex by mini-mart shop workers multiple times in different shops.
"They were harassing me, touching me… saying, 'I'll pay you money to go to the hotel'" she says.
"Because they got away with it with other girls, they thought they could get away with me as well."
A similar incident happened to a 13-year-old girl, according to the woman, who says she heard about it from the girl's mother.
"She went to buy something… they tried to drag her upstairs," she says.
"[The man was] touching her up, kissing her, trying to rip her clothes off and everything… she managed to run away."
She has also heard of young girls being given free alcohol, drugs and food and being made to have sex with men - either in hotels or in flats above shops.
Wayne Little, cabinet member for children's services at Dudley Council, has told the BBC: "We take all reports of child sexual exploitation seriously and work closely with internal colleagues and partner agencies as part of the Dudley Safeguarding People Partnership."

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MPs demand urgent action on London grooming gangs: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24dyjlypd9o

The government's inquiry into grooming gangs "must look specifically at London as part of its local investigations", according to a group of MPs.
In a letter seen by the BBC, eight Conservative MPs and three London Assembly members are demanding "urgent action" from Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan.
The MPs include the shadow home secretary, Chris Philp, and the former leader of the Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith.
The letter follows a BBC News investigation last month, which exposed how vulnerable girls as young as 14 were being lured into forced sex by gangs in the capital.
"Survivors told the BBC they had been raped by several men as payment for unpaid drug debts by the gangs that controlled them, while others said they had been groomed for sex," the letter says.
"We are horrified by these reports. The report lays bare the failings of the authorities in London to tackle the grooming gangs we have seen operating all over the country."

The government has announced there will be a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs, covering England and Wales.
It is expected to include new local investigations, which will take place even if local authorities do not want one. But it is not clear where those inquiries will be.
The signatories want one of those local inquiries to be about London, and are calling on the Metropolitan Police to "set up a specific unit to look at these cases and bring these disgusting grooming gangs to justice".
In response to the letter, a Home Office spokesperson said: "The local areas to be examined by the inquiry will be selected by the chair in due course.
"Sexual and criminal abuse of children by gangs, whenever they occur, are among the most horrific crimes imaginable."
The national inquiry's final terms of reference are expected to be published by 31 March, when it will be formally established. Former children's commissioner Baroness Anne Longfield will chair the inquiry.
It was established in response to recommendations made by Baroness Louise Casey in her national audit on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse published in June 2025.
Public attention on grooming gangs has often centred on the north of England, but last month's BBC investigation revealed a complex picture in London, with gangs from a range of ethnic backgrounds, including white, operating widely in the capital and frequently exploiting young women.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: "Such cases are already investigated by specialist officers with expertise in sexual offences and safeguarding.
"As part of the national re-investigation recommended by Baroness Casey, we also have a dedicated unit reviewing around 12,000 child sexual abuse and exploitation cases from a 15-year period.
"Work is ongoing to further strengthen our specialist response - training over 11,000 frontline officers."
About 2,000 child exploitation cases are reported to the Met every year. These relate to child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, or cases where both forms of harm were present.
A spokesperson for Sir Sadiq said: "The mayor is clear that the Met Police must follow the evidence wherever it leads and he will continue to ensure it does everything possible to tackle all child sexual exploitation in the capital, including grooming gangs, to build a safer London for everyone."

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Scottish government orders public inquiry into grooming gangs: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1789qxgwywo

The Scottish government has ordered a public inquiry into grooming gangs.
Child sexual abuse expert Prof Alexis Jay, who has been overseeing a national review of group-based abuse in Scotland, will lead the inquiry.
Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth said the government was "determined to act decisively to protect children".
However, opposition MSPs questioned why ministers had not ordered the inquiry earlier.
Jay's review, which was announced in December, was designed to inform a future decision on whether or not there should be a judge-led public inquiry.
At the time it was welcomed by Scottish Labour but Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said it did not go "far enough" and called for a full public inquiry.
Ministers previously said they thought more evidence was required but that threshold now appears to have been met.

Gilruth told parliament that the inquiry would focus on the prevalence of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation, now and in the recent past.
She said it would not "duplicate" the work of the long-running Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
The scope of the inquiry will be finalised in due course, the minister told MSPs.
Gilruth said: "I consider the establishment of a public inquiry to be essential, and from discussions I know Professor Jay wants to ensure that the inquiry is carried out at pace.
"Announcing an independent public inquiry today will not cure all which has come before, but it is a statement of intent from this government that we will leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of justice for survivors of child sexual abuse."

Scottish Conservative MSP Roz McCall told parliament it was "scandalous" that victims were not listened to earlier.
She said: "This long overdue U-turn by the SNP is the very least that survivors of grooming gangs deserve.
"They have had to fight tooth and nail for the public inquiry which they hope will deliver justice, some degree of closure and ensure lessons are learned to prevent other vulnerable children being preyed upon."
Labour's Pauline McNeill called for clarity over what had changed since ministers had argued against the inquiry last year, noting that the national review panel had only met once.
She questioned what "substantial" new information had come to light and raised concerns that the inquiry may not be able to "get off the ground until victims come forward" and give evidence.

Last month, an independent investigation found Justice Secretary Angela Constance broke the ministerial code after making controversial comments about Jay in parliament.
The SNP minister was accused of misrepresenting Jay after she told MSPs the expert did not support further grooming gang inquiries. However, Jay later contacted the government to clarify that her remarks did not refer to inquiries in Scotland.
Constance, who was deemed to have breached the ministerial code inadvertently, was given a written reprimand.

During the row, the mother of a grooming gangs survivor, known as Taylor, said she no longer had confidence in the justice secretary.
She has now welcomed the public inquiry, thanking Gilruth for "listening to survivors and families like mine and for taking decisive action".
She added: "For too long, vulnerable children have not been listened to. Warning signs have been missed or ignored.
"This inquiry must mean more than words, it must uncover the truth, no matter how uncomfortable that may be."
In February last year, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer commissioned Dame Louise Casey to evaluate the scale, nature and drivers of group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse at a national and local level.
In her review, Dame Louise recommended a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation in England and Wales.
Sir Keir accepted the recommendation and said it was "the right thing to do" based on what she had uncovered.
Called the Independent Commission on Grooming Gangs, the inquiry in England and Wales will have legal powers to direct targeted investigations in local areas and summon witnesses to give evidence.
The UK government said a panel of abuse survivors would be given a central role in the inquiry, however, four resigned in October in protest at how the government had handled the process so far.