A speech by safeguarding minister Jess Phillips updating Parliament on the action plan for tackling child sexual exploitation, attracted accusations that the approach had been "watered down".
However, the Home Office later confirmed the local inquiries would go ahead as announced, with more funding in the pipeline where needed.
“Following feedback from local authorities, the fund will adopt a flexible approach to support both full independent local inquiries and more bespoke work, including local victims’ panels or locally led audits into the handling of historic cases,” Phillips told MPs.
The process through which local authorities can access the fund will be published next month, alongside more detail on a new best practice framework supporting councils that want to “undertake victim-centred local inquiries, or related work”, said the minister.
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