A recent report highlights a pervasive culture of blindness, ignorance, and prejudice that has hindered effective investigations into child abuse by grooming gangs. The inquiry, led by Louise Casey, emphasizes the failure of authorities to address the ethnicity of offenders, particularly noting the over-representation of men of Asian and Pakistani heritage in local data. The UK government, under Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, has agreed to implement all 12 recommendations from Casey's review, which includes establishing a statutory inquiry to address systematic institutional failures and improve data collection on national levels.
A culture of blindness, ignorance and prejudice led to repeated failures over decades to properly investigate cases in which children were abused by grooming gangs.
Ignoring the issues allows the criminality and depravity of a minority of men to be used to marginalise whole communities.
Lady Casey found evidence of over-representation of Asian and Pakistani heritage men among suspects in local data collected in Greater Manchester.
The government will accept all 12 recommendations of Casey's rapid review, including setting up a statutory inquiry into institutional failures.
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