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Dame Louise Casey advocates for a 'national reset' on grooming gangs, urging swift government action and a comprehensive inquiry into child sexual exploitation, emphasizing transparency, data collection, and accountability, amidst political debates and calls for a unified approach.
The report highlights significant issues in data collection and reporting on grooming gangs, emphasizing the disproportionate involvement of Asian men in some areas, and calls for a national inquiry, legal reforms to see children as children, and tighter regulation of taxi licensing to prevent exploitation. The government plans to improve data collection and pursue targeted investigations to address these concerns.
Keir Starmer has initiated a national investigation into grooming gangs and a statutory inquiry into institutional failures, aiming to reopen cases, identify offenders, and scrutinize how institutions mishandled abuse complaints, following months of political pressure and a review by Louise Casey.
Rachel Reeves defended the government's decision to launch a national inquiry into grooming gangs, emphasizing that victims' concerns were never dismissed, and highlighted the focus on implementing previous recommendations and addressing institutional failings in child sexual exploitation cases.
Sir Keir Starmer has announced a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs in England and Wales, following recommendations from Baroness Louise Casey's audit, aiming to investigate the scale and nature of group-based child sexual abuse with powers to compel evidence and witnesses.