政府周三宣布，一项全国性调查将开展地方调查，并审视伯明翰和威尔士儿童遭受性虐待和性剥削的整体情况。
National inquiry will conduct local investigations and look at the wider picture of sexual abuse and exploitation of children Birmingham and Wales will be investigated as part of an independent inquiry into grooming gangs, it was announced on Wednesday.
这项独立调查由前儿童事务专员安妮·朗菲尔德主持。调查委员会将有权强制证人出席并提交文件，以查清个人和机构在保护儿童免遭性虐待方面“做了或没做什么”。
The inquiry, chaired by the former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield, will have the power to compel witnesses and documents to interrogate what individuals and agencies “did or did not do to protect children from being sexually abused”.