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Rejected petition: Launch a national enquiry into grooming and rape gangs.

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Launch a full national enquiry into grooming and rape gangs because a series of local enquiries do not have the same legal powers and will not identify any national patterns.

Because local enquiries do not have the same legal powers as a national enquiry.


Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Launch a Public Inquiry into Grooming Gangs
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/711976

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.