Overview
- The Home Secretary said more than 1,200 cases have been flagged for reinvestigation, including around 200 priority rape cases.
- The inquiry will proceed through local investigations overseen by a national panel with full statutory powers to compel evidence.
- The remit will explicitly examine offenders’ backgrounds, including ethnicity and religion, and whether authorities held back to preserve community cohesion.
- The Conservatives published survivor-developed draft terms urging a two‑year limit, a focus on extra‑familial abuse, powers to summon witnesses, and referrals to police, with survivors such as Fiona Goddard expressing support after quitting the liaison panel.
- Political contention over independence, remit and UK‑wide scope continues, with Kemi Badenoch pressing for Scotland to be included and for the government to adopt the survivor-informed framework.