Question follow-through · 52623

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she has provided to local authorities on grooming gang inquiries.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
15 May 2025
Target answer date
19 May 2025
Answer
29 May 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 15 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she has provided to local authorities on grooming gang inquiries.

  2. 19 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Government continues work to deliver meaningful change for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation, including group-based child sexual exploitation or grooming gangs.The Home Secretary wrote to all local authorities on 12 March 20...

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