Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announces local grooming gangs inquiries after mounting pressure

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00:00In many areas across the country, the focus must now be on further police investigations

00:04and implementing recommendations to improve services. But we will also provide stronger

00:09national backing for local inquiries where they are needed to get truth and justice for victims

00:15and survivors. The Prime Minister and I both met last week with survivors from Telford who had

00:20enormous praise for the way that that local inquiry was conducted after there had been failings over

00:26very many years. And that inquiry led to tangible change, including piloting the introduction of

00:31CCTV in taxis, appointing child sexual exploitation experts in local secondary schools. And as we've

00:37seen, effective local inquiries can delve into far more local detail and deliver more locally

00:43relevant answers and change than a lengthy nationwide inquiry can provide. So Tom Crowther,

00:50KC, chair of the Telford inquiry, has agreed to work with the government to develop a new

00:55framework for victim-centred locally led inquiries where they are needed

00:59and as a first step to work with Oldham Council and up to four other pilot areas.