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The harm of not doing this is real and documented. Investigations have repeatedly started again from scratch. We have had victim groups go unidentified. Missing ethnicity data hides vulnerabilities among white working-class girls in post-industrial towns. It hides vulnerabilities for south Asian girls, whose victimisation is often underreported. It conceals harm for black and mixed-ethnicity children groomed via county lines overlap. Without data, agencies cannot tailor support or understand why particular communities are underrepresented or overrepresented in referrals.