The government is being taken to court over accusations it has failed to deliver grooming gang inquiry recommendations.
Maggie Oliver, a former detective turned whistleblower, has said child sexual abuse survivors 'should not be asked to relive their most traumatic experiences only to see no meaningful action' taken.
It comes after the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), which concluded in 2022, recommended 20 major reforms to protect children in England and Wales.
These included collecting data relating to the ethnicity and religious backgrounds of perpetrators of such horrific crimes.
A recent report by Baroness Louise Casey found a significant over-representation of Asian men who are suspects in grooming gangs.
It added that while authorities are in 'denial', more needs to be done to understand why this is the case.
Other recommendations still to be implemented include ensuring children in care have the same access to justice as others and ending the use of pain-inducing restraint on children in custody - a practice described in the IICSA report as 'amounting to torture'.
But Ms Oliver, 70, has said that, despite repeated public commitments, successive governments have allegedly failed to implement many of the IICSA reforms.
She said: 'The government has promised another national inquiry, this time focused on so-called "grooming gangs".
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