The UK's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, announced on Thursday that a budget of nearly 6 million euros would be allocated ...

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 ...

Elon Musk forced the Government into commissioning new grooming gangs inquiries, a minister has admitted. Chris Bryant, a ...

UK Interior minister Yvette Cooper also said several new local inquiries into cases of abuse would be launched, bowing to ...

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The government today announced a new national-level "rapid audit" of grooming gangs, plus up to five new local inquiries.

The British government says it will support a series of local inquiries into organized child sexual abuse in the wake of a ...

Britain’s Labour government came under pressure to act after Elon Musk reignited a decade-old scandal involving child sexual abuse mainly by men of Pakistani heritage. By Stephen Castle Stephen ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said local reviews would provide more answers and change than a nationwide probe. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper addresses the House of Commons on child abuse and ...

Lisa Nandy has said she "utterly refutes" claims Elon Musk's intervention on UK grooming gangs prompted action from the government. The culture secretary told Sky News: "We're not a government ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said that she does not believe ‘that this Government is being driven by what happens on social ...