Research on the “characteristics” of grooming gangs is to be published by the government following a U-turn. In response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by The Independent, the Home Office previously said releasing the paper would not be in the “public interest” in February. The response sparked a government petition that has so far been signed by almost 126,000 people demanding the “release of the official research on grooming gangs undertaken by the government in full”. In its initial reply, the government said the work announced by Sajid Javid in 2018 was “internal” and would inform an upcoming strategy on child sexual abuse. But on Tuesday, the Home Office announced that it would “publish a paper into group-based child sexual exploitation in order to better understand the characteristics of group-based offending and help deliver justice for victims”. And who decided not in the public interest? Why is it so difficult to make criticism of Islam?
Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 11
