US EditionFlawed data used repeatedly to dismiss claims about 'Asian grooming gangs', Baroness Casey finds
UNITED KINGDOM, JUN 18 – The government accepted all 12 Casey report recommendations, including mandatory ethnicity data collection and review of over 1,000 cold cases, to address institutional failures in grooming gang investigations.
- The UK government has launched a new statutory investigation addressing the exploitation of children by criminal gangs, following the findings of Baroness Casey's recent review.
- This inquiry follows a 2015–2022 independent investigation that revealed authorities repeatedly failed to protect vulnerable girls, with ethnicity data often missing or avoided due to fear of being called racist.
- The 200-page Casey audit highlighted disproportionate numbers of suspects from South Asian backgrounds in three police forces and criticized decades of institutions ignoring abuse to avoid community tensions.
- Baroness Casey emphasized that society has a responsibility to these women, while the inquiry’s final report proposed 20 recommendations aimed at reform—none of which have yet been fully enacted—highlighting the importance of improved data collection and accountability.
- The inquiry seeks to confront historical failures to protect victims, enhance the quality of data gathering, and deliver justice, while acknowledging that perpetrators cannot be defined solely by ethnicity and that survivors have faced neglect over many years.
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An uncomfortable truth that shames us all - Manchester Evening News
A public inquiry into grooming gangs will leave blood on the carpet and reputations in tatters. John Scheerhout who has covered the scandal for more than a decade says it might be just what is needed.
Grooming gangs, social cohesion and hard truths
Trust in the institutions that are meant to protect us is built slowly but shattered quickly. Over the past decade, report after report has revealed the same shocking story: that thousands of vulnerable girls were groomed and abused by gangs while the institutions charged with their safety looked the other way. Baroness Casey’s investigation, which prompted the PM’s U-turn on a new statutory inquiry, is just the latest in a series of findings th…
Gove Grooming Gang Report, Nearly Silenced - American Faith
Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove has confirmed that the British government attempted to suppress reporting on Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs in 2011. Gove, who led the Department for Education at the time, said Thursday on GB News that government officials sought to legally block The Times from publishing a pivotal report exposing the child exploitation scandal. Gove backed claims made by former adviser Dominic Cummings, who …
Fear of touching and consideration for minorities has cost the safety of innocent girls in the UK. The conclusion of a report is shocking and reminiscent of something we know in Denmark.
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