Casey Rape Gang Review to Be Published Next Week – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Casey Rape Gang Review to Be Published Next Week

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The Casey review into rape gangs is expected to drop next week. After Labour broke its pledge to publish the review in May – it was initially supposed to come out in August – safeguarding minister Jess Phillips apologised and said Casey had requested a “short extension.“ It is now all but finished…

The National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse has four aims in its terms of reference:

• Build a national picture of what is known about current group-based child sexual exploitation, to identify local and national trends, to assess the quality of data available and review police understanding of this crime.
• Review data linked to group-based CSE in other relevant partner agencies (this could include, for example, criminal justice agencies, local authority services, and multi-agency partnerships).
• Provide an assessment of what is known about the demographics of grooming gangs and their victims, including ethnicity.
• Conduct a review into the cultural and societal drivers for this type of offending and the motivations and characteristics of grooming gang offending, to provide an evidence-base for prevention, early intervention and disruption.

Sources say the plan as it currently stands is to publish the review on Wednesday after PMQs. The publication date was moved from Tuesday. This suggests Downing Street is concerned about its contents and doesn’t want Starmer to be asked about it at Prime Minister’s Questions…

For Starmer to dodge questions in this manner would be irregular. The review should be presented to Parliament before Wednesday afternoon…