Overview
- Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told the London Assembly there is a “steady flow” of live multi‑offender child sexual exploitation investigations and a very significant number of cases flagged for reinvestigation requiring substantial funding.
- Former Hounslow care placements worker Warda Mohamed alleges girls in local authority care were taken to hotels and abused by “rich older men,” with council documents from 2015–2021 noting hotels as locations of concern for exploitation.
- Hounslow Council says it can find no record of Mohamed’s reports and has asked for specific details, while citing safeguarding processes and Ofsted inspections that found no systemic failures despite earlier recording weaknesses.
- The Met says London’s group‑based child sexual exploitation picture is more varied than elsewhere and does not neatly align with patterns reported in other regions, reiterating its commitment to protect vulnerable children.
- National scrutiny is intensifying as survivor‑panel members resign from a government inquiry and campaigners back legal and data reforms, including Baroness Casey’s recommendation to classify sex with 13–15‑year‑olds as statutory rape.