Plans for a police taskforce and better data on grooming gangs, including ethnicity, are being criticised.
Rishi Sunak is setting out plans for a police taskforce to tackle grooming gangs, as he said political correctness had hindered efforts.
The prime minister was in Leeds and Greater Manchester on Monday meeting victims and local police to mark the launch of the taskforce, which will be supported by the National Crime Agency. She told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: "Child sexual abuse does not have a skin colour, it doesn't have a religion, it doesn't have a culture. Child sexual abuse does not discriminate."
Over years of hearings and research IICSA also found child abuse existed in a wide range of contexts, ranging from religious institutions, schools, the care system, and online, which are not covered by today's announcement. It comes after the government said people who work with children in England will be legally required to report child sexual abuse or face prosecution, under its plans.The move - which is subject to a consultation - was recommended last year by IICSA.
An independent inquiry found at least 1,400 children had been subjected to sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, with the perpetrators predominantly men of Pakistani heritage.found "a number" of high-profile cases had "mainly involved men of Pakistani ethnicity", but also highlighted "significant limitations to what can be said about links between ethnicity and this form of offending".
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