Die ethnische Zugehörigkeit der Bräutigungsbanden, die sich vor dem Bericht von Casey schreibt, sagt Casey Report

From the summary:

> This audit is the latest in a long line of initiatives and measures looking into child sexual exploitation undertaken since the government adopted its first definition in 2009. Reviews, recommendations and strategies on child sexual exploitation raise the same issues repeatedly: system failures in information sharing, the need for more training, understanding of risk factors of victims, and the importance of collecting better data and information on perpetrators, including on ethnicity.

> … what emerges instead over at least the last decade is a repeating cycle: seminal moments of scandal and public outrage [*we are here now*] which lead to bursts of government focus and activity [*this is what we’ll get in the next few weeks/months*] but no sustained improvement, leaving victims and the public with insufficient justice, action, accountability or answers.

And it looks like we’re doing the same thing again.

> Blindness, ignorance, prejudice, defensiveness and even good but misdirected intentions, all play a part in a collective failure to properly deter and prosecute offenders or to protect children from harm.

On pages 21-23 [of the full report](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-audit-on-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse) there is a handy timeline showing all the reports, investigations, reviews and so on there have been since 2009. Three pages just setting out the timeline. Then the report goes through them, setting out what they find, pointing out they all say the same things.

There is nothing new in this report (although there are in the recommendations – including a recommendation to change the legal definition of „rape“). It is highlighting the same thing that has been reported again and again over the last 15 years.

And, as usual, the press is picking out one phrase – the „shied away from“ bit – on ethnicity, and getting everyone to argue about racism, rather than address any of the substance of the report.