- A “disturbing” report on grooming gangs in Britain has revealed that children and teenage girls were blamed for crimes committed against them.
- Baroness Louise Casey's analysis, released on Monday, identified that men of Asian and Pakistani heritage were overrepresented as suspects in three police forces’ data.
- However, some organisations had avoided addressing the issue for fear of appearing racist, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said.
- The report also identified a “continued failure to gather proper robust national data despite concerns being raised going back very many years”, Ms Cooper said.
- The Home Secretary has announced a raft of measures to combat grooming gangs, including statutory data collection on the nationality and ethnicity of perpetrators.
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