It’s understood that the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will announce a plan to implement local inquiries into grooming gangs in a statement to the Commons later.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will be giving a statement to Parliament on grooming gangs today, the House of Commons has confirmed. With Labour under increasing pressure to launch a national Public Inquiry into the rape gangs scandal,

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is expected to speak in the House of Commons at 13:30 GMT about child sexual exploitation; For weeks, the government has faced calls for a new nationa