The Home Office has announced that a specialist grooming gangs task force had made over 400 arrests in its first year. The task force has trained some 550 officers and protected more than 4,000 victims, the Home Office said.

Discussing the announcement, GB News reporter Charlie Peters said: "This national force, supported by the National Police, Chief Council and the National Crime Agency, has trained up some 400 specialist officers and they've interacted with all 42 police forces in England and Wales, getting long term data analytics into the forces to build up a database and understand the extent and scale of this abuse."