The UK's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, announced on Thursday that a budget of nearly 6 million euros would be allocated to fund new local investigations into the scandal that has affected dozens of towns in central and northern England since 2000.

Elon Musk forced the Government into commissioning new grooming gangs inquiries, a minister has admitted. Chris Bryant, a junior culture minister, said it was “certainly true” that the billionaire owner of X had “expedited” fresh investigations into the scandal.

Britain's Home Secretary announced there would be a number of new local inquiries into decade-old allegations of child grooming, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings.

The government today announced a new national-level "rapid audit" of grooming gangs, plus up to five new local inquiries. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the government will launch a national three-month audit, led by Dame Louise Casey, which will examine "cultural and societal drivers" of child sexual exploitation.

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The British government says it will support a series of local inquiries into organized child sexual abuse in the wake of a furor largely stoked by the world’s richest man Elon Musk

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said local reviews would provide ... following weeks of pressure including from billionaire X-owner Elon Musk for a national inquiry into grooming, said local reviews ...

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"fresh inquiry could delay meaningful action, re-traumatise survivors, and mislead the public about the realities of child sexual exploitation."

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said that she does not believe ‘that this Government is being driven by what happens on social media’.

The chair of the Telford grooming gang inquiry will work with the government to develop similar investigations in other British towns.