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Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has promised "a moment of reckoning" for those who turned a blind eye to the the scandal of grooming gangs.
The scale of abuse was set out by Prof Alexis Jay's Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in 2022, but when Labour won the general election in July 2024, none of her 20 recommendations had been implemented.
Baroness Louise Casey was then commissioned to audit the "culture and societal drivers" of the abuse in a rapid review, which Downing Street has said is concluding this month.
Pressure for a fresh inquiry from some victims and political opponents has been resisted, with the government focused on implementing the 2022 recommendations.
