Whitehall officials attempted to persuade Lord Michael Gove to cover up the grooming scandal in 2011, as he revealed to Sky News. Gove confirmed the earlier reporting by Sky News, stating that more should have been done to prevent the abuse of young girls in Britain. The allegations of a cover-up were originally brought to light by former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings in an interview with Sky News, and were also supported by other sources. Lord Gove, who was education secretary at the time, recounted how he discovered that journalist Andrew Norfolk was planning to publish details of a report on the abuse and grooming of young girls by Rotherham Council. Norfolk, whom Gove praised as a «heroic reporter», was met with resistance from the council, who sought to prevent the report from being made public. Lord Gove has informed Sky News that Whitehall officials attempted to persuade him to conceal the grooming scandal.

In 2011, Whitehall officials attempted to persuade Lord Michael Gove to take legal action to conceal information from a report on the grooming scandal, as confirmed by Sky News. Speaking on Sky’s Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge, the former cabinet minister acknowledged that more should have been done to prevent the abuse of young girls in Britain, a responsibility that weighs heavily on him.

These allegations were initially brought to light by former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings in an interview with Sky News, and were backed up by other sources. Cummings was working for Lord Gove, who was then serving as education secretary.

Lord Gove recounted that in 2011, he was informed that journalist Andrew Norfolk of The Times, whom he praised as «a courageous reporter who played a key role in exposing this scandal», was planning to publish information from a report by Rotherham Council regarding the abuse and grooming of young girls. Rotherham Council was attempting to prevent this from happening.

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