'We Have Lost More Than A Decade': Labour Unveils 'Damning' Results Of Grooming Gang Review

Yvette Cooper unveiled the findings from a review into the grooming gangs scandal today.Home secretary Yvette Cooper has just revealed the “damning” findings of an independent report into the grooming gangs scandal in the Commons.The government suddenly U-turned on holding a national inquiry at the weekend, claiming this review from Baroness Casey meant it was now necessary.Labour was pushing back on calls for a second statutory national inquiry, saying it was focused on implementing all of the recommendations from a 2022 inquiry into child sex abuse from Professor Alexis Jay.He also accused politicians calling for a national probe of jumping on the “far-right” bandwagon.Today, Cooper unveiled the findings of Baroness Casey’s probe, attacking the agencies accused of not taking enough action over the last 15 years – and explained what the government planned to do next.Cooper said Casey’s audit was “damning” and that “victims should never have been let down for so long”.She claimed there have been 15 years of reports, reviews, inquiries and investigations, noting: “These findings are deeply disturbing, but most disturbing of all, as Baroness Casey makes clear, is the fact that too many of these findings are not new.”She added: “We have lost more than a decade. That must end now.”Here’s what you need to know.What did the report find?The Casey report had 12 recommendations across its 200-page report, including:1. ‘We must see children as children’Casey warns that too many grooming gangs have been dropped or downgraded “because a 13 to 15 old is perceived to have been in love with or had consented to sex with a perpetrator”.2. ‘Clear evidence of over-representation’ of Asian and Pakistani menLocal data from three police forces identified clear evidence of over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani heritage men.Casey also referred to examples of organisations avoiding the topic altogether for fear of appearing racist or raising community tensions.3. ‘Vulnerable children were targeted’The report found victims as young as 10 being singled out for grooming because they’re vulnerable, perhaps in care or with learning or physically disabilities.Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the findings of the grooming gang review are 'damning'. https://t.co/TC2ROCL7wW📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/50PqQuJ86O— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 16, 2025What has the government pledged to do?A major inquiryThe government already announced they would launch a “full statutory inquiry” into grooming gangs, which will build on local inquiries and should be time-limited.But Casey is “not recommending another overarching inquiry of the kind conducted by Prof Alexis Jay”.Instead, it will see the National Crime Agency follow up on more than 800 cold cases, although Cooper said she expects that to be expanded to 1,000 cases within a few weeks.It will look into “continued denial, resistance and legal wrangling among local agencies”.‘Biggest programme of work ever’ to look into grooming gangsWhile also issuing an “unequivocal apology” to victims of child sexual abuse, Cooper listed the ways Labour intends to improve the system to protect children.She said this would be the “biggest programme of work ever pursued to root out the scourge of grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation”.The home secretary said the government would unveil mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse and new aggravated offences for grooming offenders.It will also bring out new laws to protect children and support victims so they will not be blamed for crimes committed against them and introduce new police operations to pursue perpetrators.New ethnicity data – which is currently not recorded for most of grooming gang perpetrators – will be collected, so the country can “face up to the facts on exploitation and abuse”.There will be “new action” in social services to identify children most at risk, too.The government has also promised to change the law so adults who engage in penetrative sex with a child under 16 face the most serious charge of rape.Those convicted for child prostitution offences while their rapists got off without charge will have their convictions disregarded and their criminal records expunged.The police will launch a new National Criminal Operation into grooming gangs so they are “always teated as serious and organised crime”.Information sharing will be improved between agencies and there will be additional training for mental health staff in schools.Cooper also vowed that those who groom children or commit sexual offences will not be granted asylum in the UK.She said: “We will do everything in our power to remove them, and we are bringing forward a change to the law, so that anyone convicted of sexual offences is excluded from the asylum system and denied refugee status.”Related...Top Tory's 'Excuse' As To Why Party Didn't Call Grooming Gangs Inquiry In Office Torn ApartKeir Starmer Performs Major U-Turn As He Backs National Inquiry Into Groomings GangsRachel Reeves Clashes With Trevor Phillips Over Labour's Grooming Gangs U-Turn

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