It's difficult to even have a balanced conversation about this without tabloid types trying to exploit the situation to cause divisions.

Historically these gangs have been a problem here. They have used fear of racism as a cover for their activity.

This is from the Independent. The right wing media have even more reports and they are, as you would imagine, slightly hysterical (and not in a funny way).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grooming-gangs-a...

I think the point there is not that there are a lot of them (how many raping gangs is a lot?), but that they are predominantly of those origins.