The Establishment has been in “denial” over the ethnicity of grooming gangs, a report has found.
Baroness Casey of Blackstock found that flawed data were used by public bodies to dismiss claims about Asian grooming gangs as “sensationalised, biased or untrue”.
She also found that in too many cases, police forces and other organisations avoided pursuing perpetrators for fear of being viewed as racist.
Shockingly, Lady Casey found that information on the ethnicity of abusers was not recorded in two thirds of cases.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, told MPs that the Government would accept all the recommendations, including setting up a national inquiry into grooming gangs.