The four locations the grooming gang inquiry will focus on first

London, Oldham, Bradfor and Keighley will be the initial focus of the grooming gangs inquiry.

The £65 million probe will investigate how grooming gangs operated and the responses of police, councils, health services, social care, and schools.

The inquiry aims to identify serious failures in the response to child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs in these areas.

Baroness Anne Longfield, former children’s commissioner for England, is leading the inquiry, which possesses legal powers to compel evidence.

Any evidence of crimes uncovered during the inquiry will be referred to Operation Beaconport, a national police operation.