“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.” Rupert Lowe’s £600,000-funded Rape Gang Inquiry has officially begun putting grooming gangs and years of institutional failure under the spotlight. After decades of ignored warnings, victims are finally being heard.

A new £600,000-funded inquiry backed by Reform MP Rupert Lowe has officially begun, aiming to examine grooming gang cases and the institutional failures that allowed abuse to continue for years.

The inquiry will focus on how warnings were repeatedly raised by victims, families and frontline workers — and why, in many cases, those warnings were ignored or dismissed by authorities. Campaigners say the process is long overdue and represents a rare opportunity to place survivors’ voices at the centre of public scrutiny.

According to those involved, the investigation will look closely at decision-making by local agencies, policing responses and safeguarding systems that failed vulnerable children.

For survivors, this is not about politics — it is about accountability.

After decades of silence and missed chances to intervene, many now hope this inquiry could finally bring transparency, responsibility and meaningful change for those who were left unprotected