Casey wants ‘national reset’ on grooming gangs

Dame Louise Casey has called for a newly-announced inquiry into grooming gangs to be used as a “moment to have a national reset” on the issue.

The crossbench peer’s report into the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse in England and Wales paved the way for a new national inquiry announced at the weekend by Sir Keir Starmer.

Baroness Casey urged those called to give evidence to the inquiry to be open to scrutiny and change.

She told the Commons home affairs committee she wanted the government to “crack on” with the inquiry, suggesting it could be completed within three years, with regular updates before the final report.

She was also quizzed by MPs about her report’s finding that the ethnicity of people involved in grooming gangs…