48 m. ago Grooming gang survivors risk becoming pawns in a political game that is no place for vulnerable people | Gaby Hinsliff

The chaos surrounding the inquiry stands as a warning: this is what happens when collapsing trust in public institutions, combined with point scoring, leads to paralysisIn the early hours of the morning, the cars would pull up outside the Bradford children’s home where Fiona Goddard lived as a teenager.Staff were worried about the men coming to collect her – records show she was felt to be “at high level of risk from unknown males” – but the policy was not to go to the police unless a child’s behaviour became concerning or she was seen being actively “dragged into a car”.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Grooming gang inquiry ‘may not take place till next year’ amid infighting over Jess Phillips’ role

Four women who resigned from the victims liaison panel have called on Jess Phillips to resign - while five survivors on the panel have backed the safeguarding minister

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10 h. ago Grooming gang inquiry may not begin until 2026 as search for chair 'could take months'

The probe has been thrown into disarray after the withdrawal of two candidates for chair, as well as five survivors from the advisory panel

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17 h. ago PM personally intervenes to contact grooming gang victims as ex

The government said Jess Phillips has the ‘full backing of the prime minister and home secretary’ insisting she will stay in post

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19 h. ago FIFTH victim quits grooming gang inquiry panel as PM insists Jess Phillips WON'T be sacked over chaos

The woman, who goes under the pen name Gaia Cooper, complained she has been offered 'no support' and the process is being used as a 'political battering ram'.

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22 h. ago Grooming gang victims call for minister to resign from inquiry

Survivors accuse Jess Phillips of being ‘unfit’ to lead investigation

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24 h. ago Grooming gang victims call for Jess Phillips to resign as probe faces further turmoil

The government said Jess Phillips has the ‘full backing of the prime minister and home secretary’ insisting she will stay in post

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27 h. ago Victims who quit grooming gang inquiry panel ‘may return if Phillips resigns’

As well as Jess Phillips’s resignation, they call for ‘all survivors on the panel to be genuinely consulted on the appointment of a chair’.

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39 h. ago Grooming gang inquiry plunged into further chaos as frontrunner to chair probe pulls out

Jim Gamble, a former police officer, has taken his name out of the running amid claims of a ‘highly charged and toxic environment’

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41 h. ago UK grooming gangs inquiry suffers fresh setback as another potential chair pulls out

Jim Gamble, a former police chief and frontrunner for the role, withdraws amid growing discontent among survivorsUK politics live – latest updatesA frontrunner to chair the national grooming gangs inquiry has withdrawn amid growing discontent from survivors over the government’s handling of the process.Jim Gamble, a former head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, is the second candidate to step down over the last two days, government sources have confirmed. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Grooming gang inquiry plunged into fresh chaos as frontrunner to chair probe pulls out

The person thought to be the last remaining candidate to chair the grooming gang inquiry has withdrawn from contention, plunging the probe into fresh chaos.

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44 h. ago Keir Starmer defends grooming gang inquiry during grilling at Prime Minister's Questions

Prime Minister says ‘injustice will have no place to hide’ as he reveals Baroness Louise Casey will support the inquiry

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44 h. ago Watch live: Keir Starmer faces PMQs grilling on child grooming gang inquiry

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch face off in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (22 October).

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45 h. ago Jess Phillips faces demands to QUIT as Labour is accused of 'watering down' grooming gang inquiry after four victims quit panel

Furious victims have been calling for the Home Office minister to go claiming she had accused them of 'lying' about efforts to water down the probe.

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46 h. ago Grooming gang survivors say ministers trying to water down inquiry despite reassurances

Woman who quit panel says she was asked about ‘broader approach’, despite Shabana Mahmood’s insistence focus will not changeGrooming gang victims have accused the UK government of attempting to manipulate them into broadening a national inquiry to include other forms of sexual abuse, despite Shabana Mahmood’s insistence that the focus will not change.They suspect that the government is trying to deflect focus away from Labour-led councils, wishes to impose a government-friendly chair and wants to avoid raising questions over the ethnicity of the perpetrators, many of whom were men of Pakistani descent. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Prospective chair of Starmer’s ‘grooming gang’ inquiry pulls out

Members hit out at handling of national investigation, citing concerns over its leadership shortlist

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3 d. ago Second grooming gang survivor quits inquiry panel over claims ministers will 'shy away' from racial or religious motives behind sexual abuse

Fiona Goddard accused the Home Office of watering down the probe and the government of creating a 'toxic environment' for fellow survivors.

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3 d. ago Grooming gang survivor quits national inquiry citing ‘toxic environment’

Fiona Goddard said there had been instances of ‘condescending and controlling language’ used towards survivors.

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3 d. ago Grooming gang victim quits 'toxic' inquiry panel and accuses government of watering down probe into scandal

Fiona Goddard, one of the first to go public about abuse she endured in Bradford, has shared a letter criticising how the UK-wide probe is being handled by officials.

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3 w. ago I was raped & passed around 50 men in grooming gang from aged 12 – cops walked in during sex assault but arrested ME

A GROOMING gang survivor, who has told how she was raped and abused by over 50 Asian men from the age of 12, says she is desperate for justice but does not trust it will ever be delivered. Jamie Leigh Jones, who has bravely waived her right to anonymity, told The Sun how gangs of...

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