New UK Grooming Gangs Report, One Of Several

In connection with my recent posts on migrant-related stabbings in the UK, I've mentioned a related problem referred to there as "grooming gangs". According to Wikipedia,

Several government reviews have reported failures by British institutions in preventing, identifying and prosecuting the widespread cases of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation that mostly occurred between the 1990s and 2010s. Allegations of governmental and institutional failures to respond to the problem or to downplay or cover up the issue have been described as a grooming gangs scandal.

. . . Media coverage and political discourse around these crimes has especially focused on the ethnic and religious background of perpetrators in high-profile cases, most of whom were Muslim men of Pakistani descent, and whether this prevented proper investigation. Data in Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire shows that, in the 2020s, men of an Asian ethnic background are disproportionately represented among perpetrators in those areas, but there is insufficient data to draw conclusions about ethnicity of perpetrators across the UK [cough, cough].

. . . Group-based child sexual exploitation and localised grooming are terms used to describe the sexual exploitation or grooming of children and adolescents by groups

. . . A 2013 report by the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee describes a group first making contact with the child in a public place. After the group's initial contact with the child, offers of treats (takeaway food, cigarettes, drugs) persuade the child to maintain the relationship. Sometimes a boy similar in age presents himself as a "boyfriend"; this person arranges for the child to be raped by other members of the group.

There were numerous local investigations of individual cases in the 2010s, but reports from government and local agencies routinely downplayed the ethnicity of the offenders, often going so far as to say they were mostly white.

In 2023, then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated that victims had been failed due to political correctness, and established a taskforce to target this specific issue. In 2025, the Labour government commissioned Baroness Casey to make a detailed audit of these cases, published as the National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. In her audit, Baroness Casey wrote: "Assertions that the majority of child sexual abuse offenders are White, even if true, are at best misleading. In a population with over of 80% of people of White ethnicity, it should always be a significant issue when people from a White background are not in the majority of victims or perpetrators of crime". The review found that there were serious shortcomings in the recording of ethnicity data about perpetrators of group-based sexual abuse. In one instance, Casey stated finding a case file where the word "Pakistani" had been tippexed [whited] out. On 14 June 2025, having previously resisted launching an investigation, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the British government would launch a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.

The "Casey Report" was released in June 2025.

The British government has announced a national inquiry into organised child sexual abuse following the release of a damning report by Baroness Louise Casey that criticised decades of institutional failure to protect children from so-called “grooming gangs”.

It marks a remarkable U-turn by the Labour Party government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which had resisted months of calls for an inquiry, stating that it was focusing on recommendations already made in an earlier seven-year probe.

. . . In her report, Casey concluded that too many grooming cases have been dropped or downgraded from rape to lesser charges because a 13- to 15-year-old is perceived to have been “in love with” or have “consented to” sex with the perpetrator.

Her review also highlighted reluctance by the authorities to “examine the ethnicity of the offenders”, saying it was not racist to do so.

The formal parliamentary report is still in progress; its partial results can be found here. But yesterday, UK MP Rupert Lowe released his own crowd-funded report on rape gangs. Lowe has previosuly been associated with Brexit and Reform, but as of 2025, he founded the Restore Britain party, which is somewhat to the right of Reform, and as of now he is the only member of Restore Britain in parliament.

The full Lowe report can be found here. Its main point is that "at least 250,000" white girls were raped and trafficked by predominantly Muslim gangs since the 1950s. The reaction I've seen so far confirms what I've been saying here about the problem of the working class in the UK:

We have class issues in this country, though we deny it, but nothing like the deep loathing that the UK middle classes (not the upper classes) have for the working class. We are talking about the university credentialed class (used to be a lot smaller). A whole class of…

— Daniel Heneghan (@dpheneghan1) June 17, 2026

As I've noted, the loathing of the UK lower bourgeoisie for the working class dates back at least to the General Strike of 1926, there's nothing recent about it. It's also reflected in Henry James's 1898 story "In the Cage", where a working-class woman in a telegraph office becomes fascinated with what the bourgeois people in the neighborhood reveal about their lives in the telegrams they send. She becomes particularly attracted to the complex relationships of a Mr Everard, and the two develop a special intimacy on that basis.

Finally they meet outside the office and acknowledge the special relationship -- but soon, Mr Everard's complex dealings require that the woman retrieve a particular telegram, sent months earlier, from the office records. If it can't be found, Mr Everard and a certain noblewoman will be ruined. The woman retrieves it, only to discover that it will put a potential scandal to rest and allow Mr Everard and the noblewoman to marry. So much for the other "special" relationship.

It looks like Henry James had insights into UK class relations as far back as Victoria's reign. The stuff you can pick up in English class! Here's a relevant YouTube as well: