The Grooming gangs inquiry is to examine the impact of ethnicity, culture and religion as the Government grooming gangs terms of reference is announced this morning
The inquiry will examine institutions such as police forces and local authorities that failed to protect children and whether “the ethnicity, culture, or religion of either perpetrators or victims influenced patterns of offending, and whether these factors shaped the institutional response”.
Baroness Anne Longfield, the former children’s commissioner who will chair the Inquiry said that
Children across England and Wales were – and still are – sexually abused and exploited by grooming gangs. Raped. Trafficked. Threatened into silence.
“That is not disputed. What has been disputed, what has been minimised, explained away, or buried for far too long, is why the institutions that exist to protect them so often chose not to act.”
