Petition · Home Office

Grooming gang national enquiry to name officials and consider failures to act

Closed 649 signatures

What the petition asks

To ensure that the culture within the Crown and Public Service, including but not limited to the Police, Social Work, Teaching, plus amongst elected officials, is one of accountability.
We think the National Enquiry must have the following elements:

1. Be an overarching investigation into child grooming gangs, that will name individual Crown and Public Servants that failed to act.

2. Where the race, ethnicity or religion of the offenders/victims is a underlying issue, identify what prevented officials from acting to prevent harm.

3. Identify what characteristics the victims shared that made them unlistened to, unbelieved and undervalued.

Timeline

1 Oct 2025 Petition opened for signatures
1 Apr 2026 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 649
Status Closed
Department Home Office
Opened 1 Oct 2025
Closed 1 Apr 2026

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 3 Aug 2026.