Grooming gangs inquiry to investigate offending in Wales and Birmingham

National inquiry will conduct local investigations and look at wider picture of sexual abuse and exploitation of children Birmingham and Wales will be investigated as part of an independent inquiry into grooming gangs, it was announced on Wednesday. The inquiry, chaired by the former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield, will have the power to compel witnesses and obtain documents to interrogate what individuals and agencies “did or did not do to protect children from being sexually abused”.