Why the UK’s grooming gangs inquiry is in turmoil – and what needs to happen now

By Anne-Marie McAlinden, Professor, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast

The UK’s grooming gangs inquiry appears to be in turmoil before it has even started, following the resignation of several women from its victim liaison panel. Their complaints related mainly to appointments to chair the inquiry and the potential for its focus to be widened.

The difficulties facing the inquiry have led Reform UK’s Nigel Farage to describe it as “dead in the water”. After years of investigation and controversy over this topic, how did it come to this?

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