It was described by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as ‘a timeline of failure from 2009 to 2025’ which shamed Britain.
For decades, victims have been ignored while grooming gangs have been left free to walk the streets due to ‘blindness, ignorance, prejudice and defensiveness’.
Here, the Mail dissects the key findings in Baroness Casey’s damning 200-page report.
Lack of data
Efforts to understand and tackle grooming gangs have been hampered by a misguided fear that examining the ethnic background of abusers could be deemed racist, Baroness Casey found.
