A newly published independent report led by Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe has brought renewed attention to the UK’s handling of group-based child sexual exploitation, raising serious concerns about historic institutional failings.

Four men have been jailed for a series of serious sexual offences committed against a vulnerable child in Dewsbury and Ossett during the 1990s, following a long‑running investigation triggered by the survivor’s own courageous disclosure to police.

Survivors of child sexual exploitation were too often treated as offenders instead of victims. Explore Baroness Casey’s criticism of the government’s limited pardon scheme and the ongoing fight to overturn wrongful convictions linked to grooming and abuse.

Switalskis breaks down the newly announced statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs—who will lead it, what powers it has, and what it could mean for survivors, accountability and future safeguarding.

Recent BBC reporting on Fiona Goddard’s experience of seeking compensation after years of sexual abuse highlights a pattern we see repeatedly when supporting survivors child abuse.

West Yorkshire Police have charged twelve people as part of a major investigation into non-recent child sexual abuse in Calderdale. The alleged offences took place between 2000 and 2004 and involved two female victims under the age of 16.

Greater Manchester Police have confirmed that three men from Rochdale have been charged with a series of offences relating to alleged child sexual exploitation (CSE) dating back to 2008 and 2009.

The latest child sexual exploitation trial in Rochdale has once again exposed the harrowing abuse suffered by vulnerable girls—and the deep-rooted failures that allowed it to happen.