A former children’s commissioner will chair the government’s inquiry into grooming gangs.
Baroness Anne Longfield will lead the inquiry, which was derailed in October when four women resigned from its survivors panel, and two leading candidates to chair the investigation pulled out.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Longfield had “devoted her life to children’s rights”, while announcing the appointment in the House of Commons.
Longfield will be joined by panellists Zoe Billingham CBE, former inspector of HM Constabulary, and Eleanor Kelly CBE, former chief executive of Southwark Council, to lead the inquiry.
