NCA, grooming gang and Operation Hydrant
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Baroness Louise Casey’s findings on grooming gangs are set to be announced on Monday, after Sir Keir Starmer committed to a statutory inquiry. The Home Secretary is set to address Parliament over the review, which prompted the Prime Minister to implement a full probe after months of resistance.
British authorities said Sunday a nationwide police operation is being launched against "grooming gangs" suspected of sexually exploiting thousands of girls and young women over decades.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the government will now require ethnicity and nationality data to be collected for all child sexual abuse cases.
An entire chapter of the Casey Review was labelled "Denial" and told how public bodies used "flawed data" to dismiss claims about Asian grooming gangs.
A nationwide police operation to track down grooming gang members has been announced by the Home Office. The National Crime Agency (NCA) will carry out a nationwide operation to target predators who have sexually exploited children as part of a gang and put them behind bars.