24 June 2026
This opening phase of the national hearings in the Inquiry will take place at the end of 2026/beginning of 2027. It will start from, and seeks to learn from, numerous national and local inquiries, inspections, safeguarding reviews, serious case reviews, criminal investigations, thematic reports, parliamentary inquiries and reviews into grooming gangs over the past three decades. It will examine recommendations made in these investigations and hold organisations to account nationally for their implementation.