Index/People/Louise Casey

Louise Casey

British public official (born 1965)

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Oct 31, 2025
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What are the demographics of convicted grooming gang members in the UK?

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...

Oct 16, 2025
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Is the UK protecting Muslim rape gangs

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...

Dec 19, 2025
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What do UK police and CPS say about religion/ethnicity data collection for sexual offences?

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‑...

Dec 7, 2025

What proportion of convicted grooming gang offenders in the UK are British-born?

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 ...

Nov 1, 2025

Have there been any high-profile cases of non-Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK?

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...

Jan 11, 2026

How have social and economic factors been linked to the emergence of grooming gangs in UK research?

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...

Jan 8, 2026

How reliable are police ethnicity records for crimes involving child sexual abuse and exploitation in England and Wales?

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...

Jan 3, 2026

How do Crown Prosecution Service reports classify ethnicity of grooming gang defendants?

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...

Jan 2, 2026

What did local inquiries (e.g., Rotherham, Rochdale) conclude about perpetrator ethnicity and institutional response, and how do those findings compare to Casey’s audit?

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...

Jan 2, 2026

Info anout grooming gangs in London

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...

Nov 11, 2025

How has the UK government responded to reports of organized child sexual abuse by gangs?

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...

Nov 2, 2025

What measures has the UK government taken to address grooming gang issues since 2019?

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...