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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lizzie Dearden

Fight against grooming gangs hindered by fear of being branded racist, says official

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The fight against grooming gangs is still being hampered by authorities’ fears that they could be called racist for documenting abusers’ ethnicity, an official has said.

A damning report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) found child sexual exploitation continues in all parts of England and Wales, a decade after it became a national scandal.

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