Release The Files

The grooming gangs scandal represents the greatest state failure in modern British history. Public bodies including councils, police and social services actively facilitated and concealed the systematic rape and exploitation of vulnerable children throughout the early 2000s.

These were overwhelmingly white working-class girls, targeted by monstrous gangs disproportionately made up of Pakistani men. For years, the authorities placed community relations above the safety of British girls.

But inquiries and fine words achieve nothing when evidence is destroyed and both street predators and public officials walk free.

A Reform government will shatter this wall of institutional protection. Within our first 100 days, we will release every file, email, memo and record held by central government, local authorities, police forces and the Home Office relating to grooming gangs over the past 40 years.