Yvette Cooper has criticized authorities for failing to protect children from grooming gangs and introduced a formal requirement for police to collect ethnicity and nationality data in child sexual abuse cases. This move comes in response to Louise Casey's review, which highlighted an over-representation of Asian and Pakistani heritage men among suspects and pointed out the reluctance of some authorities to acknowledge this for fear of being labeled racist. The government plans to accept all recommendations from the review to improve data transparency and enforce stricter laws against offenders.
Ignoring the issues, not examining and exposing them to the light, allows the criminality and depravity of a minority of men to be used to marginalise whole communities.
The vast majority of people in our British, Asian and Pakistani heritage communities continue to be appalled by these terrible crimes and agree that the criminal minority must be dealt with robustly by law.
The government would accept all 12 recommendations of Louise Casey's rapid review, including setting up a statutory inquiry into institutional failures and data collection.
There is evidence of over-representation of Asian and Pakistani heritage men among suspects, reflecting a failure to gather and analyze robust national data.
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