An independent review into the rising number of young people not working or studying is being launched by the government.Former Labour Health Secretary Alan Milburn will lead the inquiry into "Neets" - the acronym for…
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…
Vanessa ClarkeEducation reporterClosing schools in Covid 'a nightmare idea', former PM Boris Johnson saysPapers in hand, Boris Johnson arrived at the Covid Inquiry before the sun came up.He was there to answer questions on decisions…
Jennifer McKiernanpolitical reporter andRuth Green and Sima Kotechasenior UK correspondentGetty Images/BBCFiona Goddard (left) and Ellie Reynolds resigned from the inquiry panel on Monday. The third survivor - Elizabeth - remains anonymousA third abuse survivor has…
Bereaved families are calling for a public inquiry into what they say are "repeated failures" by the UK government to protect vulnerable people from a website promoting suicide.A report by the Molly Rose Foundation says…
Julia BrysonYorkshire andJennifer McKiernanPolitical reporterBBCFiona Goddard said she was failed "multiple times" by social services and policeAn abuse victim has resigned from her role in the national inquiry into grooming gangs, over fears of a…