The story, from the start

For decades, in towns and cities across England, groups of men groomed and sexually exploited children — most of them girls, many already vulnerable. The institutions that should have protected them often did not. This site exists to track, in public, whether the promises now being made are kept.

What has been established

This is not a matter of allegation. Courts have convicted offenders in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oxford, Newcastle and elsewhere. Statutory inquiries and serious case reviews have documented the pattern: children groomed with attention, gifts, alcohol and drugs, then abused and passed between men — while police, councils and other agencies dismissed them, disbelieved them, or treated them as having made a choice.

In Rotherham alone, the Jay Report reached a conservative estimate of approximately 1,400 children ESTABLISHED Jay Report, 2014 affected between 1997 and 2013. In Telford, the Crowther inquiry estimated more than 1,000 children ESTABLISHED Crowther Report, 2022 were abused over decades. The true national scale is genuinely unknown — and claims that put a precise number on it are exactly the kind of figure this site teaches you to read carefully.

Where things stand now

After Baroness Casey's national audit in June 2025, the government accepted a national statutory inquiry. The Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs, chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield, was formally established on 13 April 2026 with legal powers to compel evidence. Its final report is due by 31 March 2029. Alongside it, the NCA-led Operation Beaconport is re-examining closed police cases.

It has been 4350 days since the Jay Report was published. The tracker counts every deadline that has been promised since — and whether it was met.

How to use this site

• Timeline — the full arc from the 1950s legal framework to this month, every entry tied to a primary source.
• Tracker — every promised milestone of the inquiry and government, with live overdue counters.
• Recommendations — the complete ledger of what four major reports told institutions to do, and what actually happened.
• Evidence — the four-tier system every statistic on this site is graded against, including the viral figures we cannot verify.
• Act — write to your MP, follow the inquiry, and find support if you are affected.

What this site will not do

We do not name victims beyond those who have chosen to identify themselves publicly. We do not publish graphic detail — the pattern matters, not the spectacle. We do not cover live prosecutions, so that nothing here can prejudice a trial. And we take no party-political position: institutional failure here spans governments of every colour, and accountability is owed regardless of who holds office.