A report into the grooming gang scandal will this week tell the Government that a national inquiry into the scandal is required.

Sir Keir Starmer will be told to launch a new national inquiry into grooming gangs in a report which is set to link the scandal to men of Pakistani origin. The recommendation will come from Baroness Casey who is expected to tell the Prime Minister that white British girls were “institutionally ignored for fear of racism”.

Baroness Casey has spent months auditing the grooming gang scandal and is expected to make her findings known next week. The Government has consistently resisted calls to launch an inquiry into the issue, insisting that time would be better spent addressing the issues highlighted in previous, smaller-scale inquiries. Until now, Starmer’s government has advocated for local inquiries to be held in areas where abuse was prevalent, with five local councils launching inquiries this year.

Critics have argued that inquiries at a local level deny those leading them the powers that national inquiries would grant.

But according to The Times, Casey’s findings will recommend a national inquiry to look at the impact of the perpetrators’ race and to investigate if and how abuse was covered up.

It is understood that one of the recommendations will be to reevaluate the issuing of taxi licences, given the role they played in transporting victims to and from abusers.

The government is aware of the reports findings and could even bring forward the date of release due to fears of leaks.

Currently, the report is scheduled to be released on Wednesday following the Prime Minister’s return from a meeting of G7 leaders in Canada.

The grooming gang scandal was uncovered in 2011 following a series of investigations by The Times.