{"id":49115,"date":"2026-06-24T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/49115\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:51:27","slug":"grooming-gang-latest-inquiry-to-launch-investigations-in-london-and-bradford-a-watershed-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/49115\/","title":{"rendered":"Grooming Gang Latest: Inquiry to launch investigations in London and Bradford &#8216;a WATERSHED moment!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Grooming Gang Latest: Inquiry to launch investigations in London and Bradford &#039;a WATERSHED moment!&#039;\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W6WpUlQ8nBA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGrooming Gang Latest: Inquiry to launch investigations in London and Bradford &#8216;a WATERSHED moment!&#8217;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA major national inquiry into grooming gangs has announced its first local investigations, with Oldham, Bradford and Keighley, and London selected as the opening areas under scrutiny. Led by Baroness Anne Longfield, the inquiry will examine the actions of central government, local authorities, police forces, the NHS and other public bodies to determine why victims of child sexual exploitation were repeatedly failed. The investigation comes after decades of reviews, reports and scandals that identified widespread safeguarding failures across multiple towns and cities.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners, victims and politicians have reacted strongly to the announcement. Solicitor David Greenwood, who has represented hundreds of survivors, welcomed the inquiry but warned that authorities may have resisted previous investigations because of the scale of the failures involved. Meanwhile, Keighley and Ilkley MP Robbie Moore described the decision as a &#8220;watershed moment&#8221; in the pursuit of justice, truth and accountability, praising victims and survivors who spent years fighting to have their voices heard. The inquiry will also revisit areas including Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and Newcastle to assess whether lessons identified in previous investigations were ever properly implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry has already identified more than 800 recommendations from reviews dating back to the 1990s and says there has been significant inconsistency in how they have been acted upon. Investigators will also examine the role of technology and social media platforms in facilitating child exploitation, as well as the influence of culture, ethnicity and religion on decision-making by public authorities. Baroness Longfield says the inquiry&#8217;s goal is to uncover why these catastrophic failures occurred, hold institutions and individuals to account, and ensure that future generations of children are protected from similar abuse. National accountability hearings are expected to begin before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>#childexploitation #groominggangs #breaking  <\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with GB News at gbnews.com or on X @GBNEWS<\/p>\n<p>Become a Friend of GB News: gbnews.com\/friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grooming Gang Latest: Inquiry to launch investigations in London and Bradford &#8216;a WATERSHED moment!&#8217; A major national inquiry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[417],"tags":[473,45580,4651,236,4120,442,471,472,45579,4117,4119,45578,490,3068,31,474,247,475,279,235],"class_list":["post-49115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gb-news","tag-analysis","tag-anna-longfield","tag-bradford","tag-breaking-news","tag-charlie-peters","tag-gb-news","tag-gb-news-live","tag-gbn","tag-grooming-gang-inquiry","tag-grooming-gangs","tag-grooming-gangs-latest","tag-grooming-gangs-update","tag-london","tag-newcastle","tag-news","tag-news-update","tag-politics","tag-reports","tag-uk","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116804573283922886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}