Angus CochraneBBC ScotlandGetty ImagesOpposition MSPs have called for Justice Secretary Angela Constance to resignJohn Swinney has dismissed calls to sack Justice Secretary Angela Constance over claims she misled parliament in a row over a grooming…
BBCBaroness Anne Longfield was the children's commissioner for England from 2015 to 2021A former children's commissioner will chair the inquiry into child sexual abuse by grooming gangs in what will be a "moment of reckoning",…
Sam FrancisPolitical reporterGetty ImagesThe Conservatives have set out proposals for a judge-led inquiry to replace the government's delayed investigation into grooming gangs.Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said Labour lacked "the political courage" to deliver its…
An MP has called for Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to be shut down after it called him a "rape enabler".The Grok chatbot made the post on X about SNP MP Pete Wishart, after…
Police forces have made progress in tackling grooming gangs and child exploitation but "significant challenges" remain, a watchdog says.Inconsistent definitions, data accuracy issues and poor national co-ordination risk undermining efforts to protect vulnerable children, His…
It's a mess. And it is extraordinarily difficult.To give you a sense of that, one of the candidates to rule themselves out of chairing the grooming gangs inquiry is Jim Gamble.Gamble's career goes like this:…
Multiple sources in government are making it clear there is a widespread determination - from No10 to the Home Office - to keep the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips in post.Phillips has come under sustained pressure…
A group of four abuse survivors are demanding Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips resign in a list of conditions for them to re-join the grooming gangs inquiry.The four women have accused Phillips of "betrayal" over a…
BBC Chief Political Correspondent Henry Zeffman has the latest - and the background - on the political row surrounding the grooming gangs inquiry.
The focus of the national grooming gangs inquiry "will not change" or be "watered down", Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has insisted.Writing in the Times newspaper, Mahmood said the wait for the appointment of the inquiry's…