Former children’s commissioner Baroness Anne Longfield to lead grooming gangs inquiry

A former children’s commissioner will chair the government’s inquiry into grooming gangs.

Baroness Anne Longfield will lead the inquiry, which was derailed in October when four women resigned from its survivors panel, and two leading candidates to chair the investigation pulled out.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Longfield had “devoted her life to children’s rights”, while announcing the appointment in the House of Commons.

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