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The evidence on the demographics of convicted “grooming gang” members in the UK is contested: some studies and high-profile prosecutions report a noticeable in certain types of group-based child sexua...
The claim that "the UK is protecting Muslim rape gangs" overstates the evidence: multiple official and investigative reports document by police and agencies to prevent and properly investigate group-b...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) publishes operational data that includes ethnicity of suspects/defendants but states that its ethnicity collection followed the Criminal Justice System’s 16+1 self‑...
Available national data do not state a reliable proportion of convicted grooming-gang offenders who are British‑born because ethnicity and nationality are poorly recorded: Baroness Casey’s 2025 audit ...
There have been , including cases where perpetrators were white and mixed ethnicity, and official studies find that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white. At the same...
Research into group-based child sexual exploitation in the UK has repeatedly linked social and economic vulnerability — including care backgrounds, homelessness and living in deprived areas — to victi...
Police ethnicity records for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSEA) in England and Wales are currently of limited reliability: recording is inconsistent across forces, large proportions of cases l...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has not produced a reliable national breakdown of grooming‑gang defendants by ethnicity because ethnicity is missing from the records in a large proportion of cases...
Local inquiries in Rotherham and Rochdale found that victims were overwhelmingly white British while many convicted perpetrators in those cases were men from South Asian backgrounds, and they condemne...
London is at the centre of a renewed national reckoning over group-based child sexual exploitation after a government audit and subsequent police reviews identified thousands of historic cases for rea...
The UK government has responded to reports of organized child sexual abuse by gangs through a mix of statutory inquiries, policy reforms, criminal-law changes, operational police actions and new victi...
Since 2019 the UK government has implemented a mix of criminal investigations, targeted policing programmes, prosecutorial guidance, statutory inquiry planning, and funding pledges aimed at tackling g...