What you need to know
The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, set out details of a full statutory inquiry into grooming gangs
She announced the findings of Baroness Casey of Blackstock’s rapid national audit, which looked at the scale of the issue
Disproportionate numbers of Asian men were responsible for child sex grooming gangs but successive governments covered up for fear of racism or raising tensions, the report found
It also found that flawed data was used to dismiss claims about “Asian grooming gangs” as sensationalised, biased or untrue
