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1 week ago | msn.com | Rajeev Syal |Pippa Crerar |Jessica Elgot

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal |Pippa Crerar |Jessica Elgot

A culture of “blindness, ignorance and prejudice” led to repeated failures over decades to properly investigate cases in which children were abused by grooming gangs, a report has said. As the government announced a public inquiry into the scandal, Louise Casey said for too long the authorities had shied away from the ethnicity of the people involved, adding it was “not racist to examine the ethnicity of the offenders”.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eleni Courea |Pippa Crerar |Kiran Stacey

The government is intensifying efforts to quell a growing rebellion over welfare cuts, with whips stepping up contact with MPs and strategists drawing up plans for a mini-reshuffle in case of resignations. Ministers are taking a carrot-and-stick approach by laying out extra support for people who face losing their benefits, while also warning mutinous MPs of the consequences of voting against the plans.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Pippa Crerar |Heather Stewart

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2 weeks ago | msn.com | Pippa Crerar |Heather Stewart

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.