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Flawed knowledge used repeatedly to dismiss claims about ‘Asian grooming gangs’, Baroness Casey finds

By Editorial Board Published June 16, 2025 8 Min Read
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Flawed knowledge used repeatedly to dismiss claims about ‘Asian grooming gangs’, Baroness Casey finds

Flawed knowledge has been used repeatedly to dismiss claims about “Asian grooming gangs”, Baroness Louise Casey has mentioned in a brand new report, as she known as for a brand new nationwide inquiry.

The federal government has accepted her suggestions to introduce obligatory assortment of ethnicity and nationality knowledge for all suspects in grooming circumstances, and for a overview of police data to launch new prison investigations into historic youngster sexual exploitation circumstances.

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Baroness Louise Casey carried out the overview. Pic: PA

The crossbench peer has produced an audit of sexual abuse carried out by grooming gangs in England and Wales, after she was requested by the prime minister to overview new and current knowledge, together with the ethnicity and demographics of those gangs.

In her report, she has warned authorities that kids must be seen “as children” and known as for a tightening of the legal guidelines across the age of consent in order that any penetrative sexual exercise with a baby underneath 16 is classed as rape. That is “to reduce uncertainty which adults can exploit to avoid or reduce the punishments that should be imposed for their crimes”, she added.

Baroness Casey mentioned: “Despite the age of consent being 16, we have found too many examples of child sexual exploitation criminal cases being dropped or downgraded from rape to lesser charges where a 13 to 15-year-old had been ‘in love with’ or ‘had consented to’ sex with the perpetrator.”

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The peer has known as for a nationwide probe into the exploitation of youngsters by gangs of males.

She has not really useful one other over-arching inquiry of the type performed by Professor Alexis Jay, and suggests the nationwide probe ought to be time-limited.

The nationwide inquiry will direct native investigations and maintain establishments to account for previous failures.

Residence Secretary Yvette Cooper mentioned the inquiry’s “purpose is to challenge what the audit describes as continued denial, resistance and legal wrangling among local agencies”.

On the difficulty of ethnicity, Baroness Casey mentioned police knowledge was not enough to attract conclusions because it had been “shied away from”, and continues to be not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators.

‘Flawed knowledge’

Nonetheless, having examined native knowledge in three police drive areas, she discovered “disproportionate numbers of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds amongst suspects for group-based child sexual exploitation, as well as in the significant number of perpetrators of Asian ethnicity identified in local reviews and high-profile child sexual exploitation prosecutions across the country, to at least warrant further examination”.

She added: “Despite reviews, reports and inquiries raising questions about men from Asian or Pakistani backgrounds grooming and sexually exploiting young white girls, the system has consistently failed to fully acknowledge this or collect accurate data so it can be examined effectively.

“As an alternative, flawed knowledge is used repeatedly to dismiss claims about ‘Asian grooming gangs’ as sensationalised, biased or unfaithful.

“This does a disservice to victims and indeed all law-abiding people in Asian communities and plays into the hands of those who want to exploit it to sow division.”

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The baroness hit out on the failure of policing knowledge and intelligence for having a number of programs which don’t talk with one another.

She additionally criticised “an ambivalent attitude to adolescent girls both in society and in the culture of many organisations”, too usually judging them as adults.

‘Deep-rooted failure’

Responding to Baroness Casey’s overview, Ms Yvette Cooper instructed the Home of Commons: “The findings of her audit are damning.

“At its coronary heart, she identifies a deep-rooted failure to deal with kids as kids. A continued failure to guard kids and teenage ladies from rape, from exploitation, and severe violence.

She added: “Baroness Casey found ‘blindness, ignorance, prejudice, defensiveness and even good but misdirected intentions’ all played a part in this collective failure.”

Ms Cooper mentioned she’s going to take rapid motion on all 12 suggestions from the report, including: “We cannot afford more wasted years repeating the same mistakes or shouting at each other across this House rather than delivering real change.”

Yvette Cooper makes a statement in the House of Commons, London, on Baroness Casey's findings on grooming gangs.
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Residence Secretary Yvette Cooper responded to the report. Pic: PA

Conservative chief Kemi Badenoch mentioned: “After months of pressure, the prime minister has finally accepted our calls for a full statutory national inquiry into the grooming gangs.

“We should do not forget that this isn’t a victory for politicians, particularly those like the house secretary, who needed to be dragged to this place, or the prime minister. This can be a victory for the survivors who’ve been calling for this for years.”

Ms Badenoch added: “The prime minister’s dealing with of this scandal is a unprecedented failure of management. His judgement has as soon as once more been discovered wanting.

“Since he became prime minister, he and the home secretary dismissed calls for an inquiry because they did not want to cause a stir.

“They accused these of us demanding justice for the victims of this scandal as, and I quote, ‘leaping on a far proper bandwagon’, a declare the prime minister’s official spokesman restated this weekend – shameful.”

The federal government has promised new legal guidelines to guard kids and help victims in order that they “stop being blamed for the crimes committed against them”.

It is usually launching new police operations and a brand new nationwide inquiry to direct native investigations and maintain establishments to account for previous failures.

There may even be new ethnicity knowledge and analysis “so we face up to the facts on exploitation and abuse,” the house secretary mentioned.

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