Police and authorities might be 'downplaying' the scale of child sexual exploitation by criminal gangs over concerns they could be seen as 'another Rochdale or Rotherham'.
That's just one of the findings in a new report which has found 'extensive failures' in the way this form of abuse is tackled.
Referring to the 2012 Rochdale child grooming scandal, the story of which was told in BBC 1 drama Three Girls, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said there was 'a flawed assumption' that child sexual exploitation was 'on the wane', with councils and police forces denying the scale of the problem, despite evidence to the contrary.
