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Hello, just a warning that today's podcast might include language you find upsetting,

because we're going to be covering the report by Baroness Casey into group-based child sexual exploitation,

which was published on Monday afternoon just before we started recording this episode.

And Baroness Casey's report, which was

published today, and we knew was going to be published today that emerged over the weekend,

actually starts with the four words written by her, where she says, and I'm going to quote it

directly, because it's worth just hearing this in her own words. She says, that term,

group-based child sexual exploitation is actually a sanitised version of what it is.

I want to set out in unsanitized terms.

We're talking about multiple sexual assaults committed against children by multiple men on multiple occasions, beatings and gang rapes,

girls having to have abortions, contracting sexually transmitted infections,

having children removed from them at birth. When those same girls get older, they face long-term,

physical and mental health impacts. Sometimes they have criminal convictions for actions they took

while under coercion. They have to live with the fear and the constant shadow over them

of an injustice which has never been righted, the shame of not being believed.

So that was the really important kind of linguistic bit right at the start of Baroness Casey's report.

There's lots of then important policy bits, but the one that's captured all the headlines

and the political attention today is her recommendation that there should be some form of statutory national inquiry into this phenomenon and the fact that the government has now accepted that.

Something we sort of knew was going to happen from Kirstarmer's comments over the weekend, but that has now happened.

So all of this is

going to be our focus on this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared

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