Overview

• Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed that local inquiries, including in Oldham, are moving forward as planned with a framework to be published next month.
• The government is employing a flexible funding model, allowing local councils to choose between independent inquiries, victim panels, or audits based on local needs.
• Increased police investigations into grooming gangs are a key focus, with the goal of ensuring perpetrators face justice and communities are safeguarded.
• Critics, including Sir Trevor Phillips, have accused the government of politically motivated dilution of its response, claims Cooper has dismissed as misinformation.
• These measures build on recommendations from the IICSA report and insights from Baroness Casey's ongoing audit into the scale and factors behind grooming gangs.