The grooming gangs inquiry will directly examine whether ethnicity, culture or religion influenced offending and whether they shaped the institutional response.The statutory independent inquiry has published its terms of reference which will be laid before Parliament when it returns from recess on April 13.The inquiry will then begin its full investigation into the group-based sexual exploitation of children in England and Wales.

The grooming gangs inquiry will directly examine whether ethnicity, culture or religion influenced offending and whether they shaped the institutional response.The statutory independent inquiry has published its terms of reference which will be laid before Parliament when it returns from recess on April 13.The inquiry will then begin its full investigation into the group-based sexual exploitation of children in England and Wales.