More child abuse is carried out by family members and other children than by grooming gangs, according to a new police taskforce in England.

The BBC reports that the UK government set up the taskforce last year to tackle what Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dubbed "evil grooming gangs".  But fewer than one in five (19%) of the cases it has investigated so far involve networks of offenders.  The figures show that 27% of cases involved family members, and 22% abuse by other children. 

The government said the taskforce would involve "parachuting in" officers with "extensive experience of undertaking grooming gang investigations".  While the government continues to call it a Grooming Gangs Taskforce, the police have since referred to it as the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce, reflecting their wider perception of the issue.