Responding to reports that the Home Secretary will announce local inquiries into the grooming gang scandal, Andrew RT Davies MS, Senedd Member for South Wales Central and former Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, said:

“Local inquiries on this issue are not sufficient.

“This dreadful scandal was able to continue because of huge issues within our institutions, so we need to understand how the culture within those institutions worked.

“Only with a national inquiry can we join the dots and really get to the bottom of this issue for victims.”

ENDS