Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield to chair grooming gangs inquiry
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Former children's commissioner Anne Longfield has been appointed to chair the national inquiry into grooming gangs, announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The £65 million, three-year inquiry will focus specifically on grooming gangs and how ethnicity, religion, and cultural factors impacted the authorities' response and the crimes themselves. Mahmood emphasized the need to avoid marginalizing communities while addressing the "sickening acts of a minority." Longfield, who will resign the Labour whip, stated the inquiry will follow the evidence and address uncomfortable truths, aiming to tackle the inadequacies in addressing grooming gangs over past decades. Louise Casey, who helped re-establish trust in the inquiry, recommended Longfield after some victims quit the advisory panel due to disagreements over the chair appointment.
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