Fresh investigations could be launched into 287 child sexual exploitation cases that had been dropped by local police forces, Yvette Cooper has told MPs.
The home secretary said the cases had been handed to a national police taskforce which will look at whether to reopen them and “pursue any new lines of inquiry that have not been properly pursued”.
In January, Cooper asked all police forces in England and Wales to “look again at historic gang exploitation cases where ‘No Further Action’ was taken”.
So far half of the forces have reported back, with 287 cases identified for review by the nati
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