The Latest Breaking News from Louise Casey

Letters: Too many care homes follow procedure but don’t take a personal interest in children’s wellbeing, says John Burton, while Brigid Featherstone says invaluable data around child protection isn’t being collected. Plus a letter from Simon Tweed

The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse was the largest inquiry in UK history, running from 2015 to 2022 and investigating institutional failures in preventing child sexual abuse. The inquiry’s final report included 20 recommendations for change. So far, zero have been fully implemented.

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The announcement follows a series of recommendations by Baroness Casey made in her audit on 'grooming gangs', which found that Asian men were overrepresented in three local areas – but more data was needed to gain a national picture.

The report addressed the UK’s institutional failure to protect children and teenage girls from sexual exploitation.

The announcement of a national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation raises urgent questions: How did we end up here again? Haven’t there been enough reports? Why weren’t children protected the first time? And will these reforms actually change anything?

Tory leader fails to find a sensitive side as she flails alongside parents and survivors of child abuse gangs

Sir Keir Starmer asked ‘why on earth’ Mrs Badenoch did not bring forward a duty for authorities to report child sexual exploitation in power.

The findings of the audit on child sexual exploitation and abuse are being dangerously politicised – and bringing fear to my community, says Zara Mohammed, former secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain

Report author cautions against misuse of limited data finding ‘over-representation’ of Asian heritage men

Eluned Morgan said she welcomed the decision by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to hold a statutory inquiry into child abuse across England and Wales.