The UK government’s ‘Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs’ published a document describing the “criteria” that needed to be met for a local area to be included in their investigations.
After listing some criteria, the Inquiry states that these “criteria” do not mean areas that meet them will be investigated. They are merely a guide to help the panel decide which areas to select that are “most likely to assist the Inquiry in discharging its Terms of Reference.”
The Panel, and only the Panel, will decide which local areas to investigate under the Inquiry. Their “criteria” is simply to make a Panel’s choice look like a legitimate process.
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On 24 June, the UK’s ‘Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs’ (“Inquiry”) announced its first investigation areas. “Oldham, Bradford and Keighley, and London have been selected as the initial locations for Local Area Investigations,” it states.
On the same day, the Inquiry published a document titled ‘Local Area Investigations Selection Criteria’ describing its criteria for selecting which local areas would be included in the Inquiry.
The Inquiry, not to be confused with ‘The Rape Gang Inquiry’ organised by Rupert Lowe MP, is a national inquiry covering England and Wales. “The Inquiry will liaise with the public inquiry announced by the Scottish Government in February 2026, into Scotland’s response to group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation, to ensure appropriate ways of working where cross-border issues arise,” its terms of reference state.
“[It] must examine issues arising between 1 January 1996 and 31 March 2029,” when the Inquiry ends and by which date its “final report must be submitted to the Home Secretary.”
The Inquiry was established on 13 April 2026 under the Inquiries Act 2005 and created in response to Recommendation 2 of Baroness Louise Casey’s National Audit (June 2025), which highlighted systemic failures and institutional paralysis in protecting children from group-based sexual exploitation.
It is being chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield CBE, with panellists Zoë Billingham CBE and Eleanor Kelly CBE and will investigate failures by statutory services, including police, social care, health and local authorities.
“The objective of the local investigations is to identify failures in organisations, systems and procedures, and failures by individual leaders, in protecting children from grooming gangs within local areas,” its terms of reference state.
Apart from accountability being delayed until at least 2029 when the report is due to be released, it all sounds like a step in the right direction … until we realise how local areas to be included in the Inquiry are selected.
In an article titled, ‘How The Grooming Gangs National Inquiry Wrote Itself The Right To Exclude Any Town Without Saying Why’, Raja Miah describes the foundational problem with the Inquiry’s method to decide which towns/cities are selected for investigation, and which ones are not.
Read the document for yourself, he says, and then ask your Member of Parliament (“MP”) a simple question: What would our town have needed to show, under this, to be guaranteed an investigation?
“There’s no answer to that question. It was built that way on purpose,” Miah answered.
What is called “criteria,” is not what we would assume – clearly defined conditions that should be met. Instead, as the Inquiry’s ‘Selection Criteria’ document states, “The criteria are not a rigid scoring system. They are intended to guide the Chair and Panel’s judgement about where a focused local investigation is most likely to assist the Inquiry in discharging its Terms of Reference.”
“The Inquiry has just told you the criteria don’t decide anything, the judgement does,” Miah wrote. “Nobody gets selected for meeting a criterion. They get selected because the Chair and Panel decided to select them, and the criteria sat somewhere in the background while that happened. This document exists to make a choice look like a process.”
After combing through the 7-page document searching for concrete criteria, Miah concluded:
How does the Inquiry decide which towns get investigated? However it likes, that’s the honest answer after seven pages. There’s nothing they’re required to do, and there’s nothing stopping them either. Data informs but never decides. Identical evidence can go two different ways depending on the postcode. The worst-affected town in the country can lose out for the sake of range, or get turned down for cost, and neither call can ever be tested by anyone outside the building.
Seven pages. Read it yourself … Then send it to your MP and ask the one question that matters. What would our town have had to show, under this document, to be guaranteed an investigation? There is no answer. That was always the point.
We encourage our readers to read Raja Miah’s article in full, and ask your MP what’s really going on and whether the Inquiry is likely to achieve what they have claimed to the public it will achieve. Or, whether the Inquiry is intended to be a superficial “national inquiry” to protect politicians, and others in a position of authority, who have been caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
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