Keir Starmer stepped out of his sleek black car, grasped the hand of his wife Vic, dressed in Labour red, and walked towards a jubilant crowd of Labour staffers, activists and MPs waving union jacks ...

ONLINE child sexual abuse could be “the next grooming crisis”, experts warn ministers. Children are being groomed and coerced ...

A child sexual exploitation scandal first exposed by UTV, helped inform research on the scale of failures by the authorities ...

Because if one thing is clear, it is that the very same institutional defensiveness Baroness Casey criticises in her report is still ever-present at the very top of Bradford Council and our mayoralty.

Allegations of girls being 'groomed' for sexual abuse had been circulating in UK for years. Louise Casey's report says authorities 'shied away’ from recording offenders' ethnicity.

Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, refused Oldham Council’s request for a government-led public inquiry—which of course had nothing to do with her wafer-thin Birmingham Yardley majority, a seat ...

Britain’s grooming-gangs scandal, the long-ignored group-based sexual abuse of children, has been a stain on the country for decades. MOHAMMED ZAHID ran a clothes stall in Rochdale market, and a ...

The row started after it was revealed that safeguarding minister Jess Phillips had rejected calls from Oldham Council for a government inquiry into historical grooming gangs in the town, with Ms ...

LONDON: A rapid national audit of grooming gangs ordered by UK PM Keir Starmer in February 2025, following pressure from Elon Musk and published late Monday, has found that UK police and councils ...

Which brings us to the grooming scandal. There is no doubt Tory leader Kemi ... That is - as it happens - the same explanation the current Labour safeguarding minister Jess Phillips offered to Oldham ...

Labour MP Natalie Fleet had earlier appeared on GB News, where she condemned Badenoch and gave an impassioned defence of Jess Phillips.

The announcement follows a series of recommendations by Baroness Casey made in her audit on 'grooming gangs', which found ...