Casey report forces Starmer’s hand on issue that has haunted Labour for decades | UK child abuse inquiry

Louise Casey’s decision to propose a national investigation into grooming gangs forced Keir Starmer’s Labor Party to a issue that has disturbed for decades.

The failure of the United Kingdom institutions to protect the widespread abuse of the gangs of boys will remain high on the political agenda for three more years.

A 197 -page report produced by Lady Casey called for wholesale changes in rape laws; He requested that the criminal convictions applied to victims of abuse be disrupted; and the five local investigations about the grooming gangs proposed to be coordinated by an independent commission with full legal investigation powers.

However, the most explosive arising from the pages is the ethnic origin of the perpetrators to be echoed as a political issue. Casey was able to find data from only three forces, but he concluded that the suspects were disproportionately likely to be Asian male.

The impression that Casey’s-three-year-old national investigation should be initiated should be launched-the impression that he had caught in skipping. Once again, he was forced to see what seemed to be a harmful U -turn.

Some labor force deputies, a prime minister’s “red wall” Backbencher’lar further adapt, after starting to work in July, an investigation or Tories’in ignored a problem for years to demand credit, he said.

Instead, he refused to approve of demands led by Elon Musk, supported by Starmer, Tories, Reform and some workers Backhenchers. .

Starting another investigation comes with a little danger to Starmer. It will probably be seized on the far right and will be used to galvanize activists such as Tommy Robinson.

Casey’s report requires a radical recovery, especially in the collection of data around ethnicity, because two -thirds of the police forces could not record the ethnic origin of the perpetrators.

Casey argues that there is enough evidence of only three forces to show “disproportionate number of suspects of Asian ethnic origins”. He also claims that the Asian ethnic origin defined in local investigations is a significant number of perpetrators ”and“ high -profile sexual exploitation of sexual exploitation ”.

At a time when there was a record increase in anti -Muslim events in the United Kingdom, there are concerns that community tensions may increase after the identification of “men of Asian ethnic origin” as a groom. Police continues to worry about the uprisings inspired by the many rebellion conspiracy theories of immigration and the identity of the Southport killer.

In addition, despite the evidence, Asian and Pakistani men may face the risk of contamination as potential pedophiles. Existing data are irregular, but November Report by Child Sexual Exploitation Task Force He argued that a higher proportion of perpetrators with sexual abuse of all kinds of children was white.

Guardian asked that he could not emphasize the issue of ethnicity, causing civil unrest, Casey said that new data should be investigated. “If good people do not grasp difficult problems, bad people do in my experience,” he said.

The investigation itself will examine the policies and decisions taken by social workers and young employees employed mainly by working councils. Local deputies – usually workers’ deputies – will be asked questions about why they know and why they could not reveal it.

The value of the initiation of another expensive investigation into child sexual abuse has been questioned by some initially exposed to grooming gangs.

The seven-year national legal investigation, headed by Prof Alexis Jay, has discussed the time period, investigating the abuse of abuse in children’s homes, church and Westminster, and examining institutional reactions, including children’s sexual exploitation-tight gangs.

More than 7,000 victims and children, including survivors of sexual abuse Truth ProjectIt gave the survivors the opportunity to share their experiences and present exchange suggestions.

Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who helped the prison of the Rochdale Grooming gang, said that there were “pragmatic doubts ve in the launch of another national investigation, they are expensive and long and could not bring people to accountable.

He said: “People want accountability. I’m not sure that people’s expectations will be realized. Only criminal investigations can bring real accountability. Not only for those who are uncomfortable, but also for those who disturb and do not.

“Unfortunately, my experience of national investigations is that they drive forever and do not offer accountability.”

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