The UK's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, announced on Thursday that a budget of nearly 6 million euros would be allocated to fund new local investigations into the scandal that has affected dozens of towns in central and northern England since 2000.

Britain's Home Secretary announced there would be a number of new local inquiries into decade-old allegations of child grooming, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings.

Elon Musk forced the Government into commissioning new grooming gangs inquiries, a minister has admitted. Chris Bryant, a junior culture minister, said it was “certainly true” that the billionaire owner of X had “expedited” fresh investigations into the scandal.

The government today announced a new national-level "rapid audit" of grooming gangs, plus up to five new local inquiries. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the government will launch a national three-month audit, led by Dame Louise Casey, which will examine "cultural and societal drivers" of child sexual exploitation.

A former Greater Manchester Police detective who resigned from the force in 2012 to expose the Rochdale grooming scandal has told The i Paper the Government’s plans to address child sexual abuse are “painfully inadequate”.

In a statement to lawmakers, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government has also ... has risen up the political agenda in the U.K. after Musk recently took to his X platform highlighting ...

UK Interior minister Yvette Cooper also said several new local inquiries into cases of abuse would be launched, bowing to political pressure for further action but stopping short of demands for a new nationwide inquiry.

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a series of local probes into so-called child grooming gangs just weeks after the billionaire Elon Musk ramped up pressure on the government to hold a national inquiry into the decades-old issue.

The Labour Government is under increasing pressure to launch a national inquiry into the sexual abuse of women and children in the UK.

The home secretary announced a plan for local grooming gang inquiries and backing for victims following pressure to support them and find out why the scandal happened.

Keir Starmer will give a last-minute address to Britain after admitting the state 'failed' the tragic Southport victims and there are 'grave questions to answer'.

"fresh inquiry could delay meaningful action, re-traumatise survivors, and mislead the public about the realities of child sexual exploitation."