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• Baroness Casey said she feels victims of grooming gangs were “let down” over the past decade.
• A new national inquiry into grooming gangs has secured £65 million in government funding.
• The inquiry will begin with local investigations in Oldham and could expand to other UK cities.

Baroness Louise Casey has said she feels personally responsible for failing victims of grooming gangs, admitting she was deeply frustrated that “not enough had changed” in the decade after the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal first shocked Britain.

Speaking at the Hay Festival on May 25, the crossbench peer reflected on her earlier investigations into failures by police and local authorities to protect vulnerable girls from organised abuse gangs.