The British government has finally answered the call to protect vulnerable children in danger of sexual exploitation

It will publish a National Action Plan designed to make the issue a top priority for every local authority. The news comes amid a devastating report into the failures of police and care agencies to protect teenage girls who have been groomed, raped and sold by male gangs, most of whom are Asian and usually of Pakistani origin. This pattern of abuse at the hands of male Asian gangs has been highlighted before, but never formally acknowledged. In January 2011, the Asian ringleaders of a gang in Derby, who brought a reign of terror to a city’s streets, targeting and grooming young girls for horrific sexual abuse, were jailed. Abid Saddique and Mohammed Liaqat were told that they would serve a minimum of 11 years and 8 years respectively before they could be considered for release.