Louise Casey to Appear Before MPs After Major Review of Child Grooming Failures
- Baroness Louise Casey is scheduled to give evidence to the Home Affairs Committee in the House of Commons on Tuesday following her extensive review of grooming gangs in the UK.
- Her review found authorities have avoided addressing offender ethnicity due to fear of being called racist, causing failures over the last decade.
- The report examined around a dozen live investigations, highlighting that suspects were disproportionately Asian men and some were non-UK nationals claiming asylum.
- Home Secretary Yvette Cooper stated, “These findings are deeply disturbing,” and the government will act immediately on all of Lady Casey's recommendations, including a national inquiry.
- This review and government response aim to end previous inaction and create a national reset focused on protecting vulnerable children from exploitation.
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Ethnicity of people in grooming gangs was 'shied away from', Louise Casey report says
"The appalling lack of data on ethnicity in crime recording alone is a major failing over the last decade or more. Questions about ethnicity have been asked but dodged for years"

Louise Casey to appear before MPs after major review of child grooming failures
Baroness Casey’s review into the grooming gangs scandal was published on Monday, and criticised the lack of data on the ethnicity of offenders.
What has Baroness Casey's review into grooming gangs found?
Baroness Casey has produced an audit of sexual abuse carried out by grooming gangs in England and Wales, after she was asked by the prime minister to review new and existing data, including the ethnicity and demographics of these gangs.
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