Casey says that right now she doesn't have faith in the Met, and many Londoners also don't have faith that the service to Londoners is good enough.

She says she is totally aware of how much the police give up for the community.

She says it is "galling" to victims that phrases like "bad apples" were used.

"The culture is all pervasive," Casey adds.

Casey says that every public sector organisation was cut over the past decade.

"It's been a tough decade and choices had to be made," but this left women and children open to violence.

First we're hearing from Baroness Casey about her findings.

She begins by saying the murder of Sarah Everard should have been a moment akin to a "plane falling out of the sky" for the policing world - citing missed opportunities to stop the woman's killer, Wayne Couzens.

Asked about what stands out from her report, she speaks of her "shock and upset" at the Met Police's failure to prevent violence against woman and girls.

BBC Radio 4's Today programme is about to hear from Sir Mark Rowley, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and Baroness Casey, who wrote the damning review.

We'll keep you updated on this page - and you can also listen live by pressing the Play button at the top of this page.

Lucy Manning
Special correspondent

None of us who read the Casey report could remember a review so damning about a British institution.

Baroness Casey chose her words deliberately: that the discrimination was institutional. That means the system and rules within the Met discriminate against black, Asian, gay and female officers.

The word “institutional” was an important and damaging one. And it was one Sir Mark Rowley decided not to accept.

I put it to him that his view that it wasn’t a “label” he wanted to use pushed him into the area of “institutional denial” that Baroness Casey had also criticised the Met for.

There will be disappointment in the review team and those who have suffered discrimination that such an important finding hasn’t been accepted by the Met bosses.

Some further comments from Sadiq Khan, interviewed on BBC Breakfast.

Asked if he accepts some responsibility for the damning findings on the Met Police in today's report, he says "absolutely". But he points to Casey's remarks on austerity - which said cuts to funding in the force by central government hampered the Met's infrastructure as well.

Asked about his plans as mayor to bring about the necessary change, Khan says change starts at the top, but it extends to recruitment and vetting as well.

Pressed on whether the Met is too large and should be dismantled, he says: "It’s not too big, it shouldn’t be broken up”.

Khan says units that Baroness Casey found as failing need to be disbanded and there needs to be an anti-misogynist anti-homophobic and anti-racist culture in the force.

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley will go back and look at members of staff who have had any complaints made against them, the mayor adds.

BBC Breakfast has heard more from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, who says he asked for this independent review carried out by Baroness Casey.

Today is one of the darkest days in the history of the Met, Khan says.

He says it would be bad enough if the public was receiving "an appalling service", but police officers who belong to certain groups are also being targeted.

Khan says he accepts Baroness Casey's findings, adding that it's important the Met is not "defensive and resistant to change". He says he's urged the force to embrace the recommendations made by Casey in the report - and emphasises the need for "root and branch reform".

In an interview for BBC Breakfast, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the whole culture of the Met needed to change to restore public confidence.

Cara is 18 and from Streatham in South London. She's part of the LGBTQ community and says as a woman, she wouldn't feel comfortable working in the police force or being around the community.

She told the BBC: “I don’t really trust the police. If you look at how much training they get, it’s sort of ridiculous given the amount of responsibility, power and influence that they have in society."

Cara said she's never been negatively affected by the police but knows a lot of people who have and feels there definitely needs to be change. But she added: "It doesn’t really seem like officials within the police force are particularly sincere about making that happen.

Cara said investigations of police behaviour meant authorities were being proactive rather than reactive.

She explained: "It just seems like a really toxic environment on an institutional level, and I think that they really need to address that through training, and through making a more diverse police force."

The BBC spoke to three black 16-year-old boys from Brixton, south London, about their experiences of policing.

Ndu said the police are "unfair to the youth".

He added: "They see a young person in a hood and they say he’s either doing gang activity or he’s a bad person. I could be walking on the road and they could stop and search me.”

David told us: “They can be fair most of the time - it’s just a lot of profiling.

"Sometimes they’ll target young students in a group and they’ll think negatively. But overall I don’t think there’s a major problem. They’re doing their jobs.”

Marcus - the third member of the group - described being stopped and searched as “traumatising” and an experience which left him “shaken”.

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The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said the evidence in the report in damning and that he accepts that Casey has found institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia in the Met.

He said he’s already acted to put the Met “on a path of far-reaching systematic and cultural reform”, with the appointment of a new commissioner and leadership team.

“But clearly much more needs to be done, and fast,” Khan said.

“This review simply must be a turning point and I expect all the recommendations to be implemented quickly and in full,” he added.

Khan said he wanted to assure Londoners that he would be “unflinching in my resolve” to support and hold the new commissioner to account as he works to overhaul the force.

The head of the Metropolitan Police Sir Mark Rowley says he accepts the report’s “diagnosis” of racism, misogyny and homophobia in his force. “It’s disturbing. It’s upsetting. It’s heartbreaking,” Rowley told the BBC, adding that he was “deeply sorry” to Londoners.

Asked whether the elite unit where rapists Wayne Couzens and David Carrick both served would be disbanded, Rowley said the unit “clearly needs radical reform”.

But he says it can’t be disbanded overnight as “we have to protect Parliament and embassies tomorrow”.

Asked whether the Met should be split up, he said “messy structural chopping up of a big organisation won't help the policing of London”.

In an interview for BBC Breakfast, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the whole culture of the Met needs to change to restore public confidence.

Asked whether he would tell his daughters to trust the police in London, Sunak replies: "We need the answer to that question to be yes".

He adds: "Clearly at the moment, trust in the police has been hugely damaged by the things that we've discovered over the past year."

Sunak says Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley is committed to making the necessary changes - some of which, he says, were already in motion "not just in London, across the country".

He says: "We've changed the guidance for police forces, for how they vet new police officers," saying these are the sort of "things that will give people confidence."

The PM continues: "But you talk about my daughters, ultimately I want both my daughters to grow up in a society that not only do they have trust in the police, but is just fundamentally safe."

Black Londoners are disproportionately the victims of homicides and domestic abuse, the report says, but are also more likely to be stopped and searched, handcuffed, batoned and Tasered.

They are “under-protected” and “over-policed”, Casey concludes.

Black, Asian, and ethnic minority officers made up 17% of Met officers last year, compared with 46% of London’s population, the report says.

Nearly half of black officers and staff, and a third of Asian ones, reported experiencing racism at work.

An overworked, inexperienced workforce polices child protection, rape and serious sexual offences, the report also says.

These areas are among those that have been “actively de-prioritised”, leaving London’s women and children at “greater risk than necessary”.

Child protection services have “major inadequacies” despite a damning report in 2016, while those support for domestic abuse victims is “poor”.

Casey’s team looked at two specialist units and found “serious issues” which needed addressing urgently.

One was Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection - which employed both Wayne Couzens, who raped and murdered Sarah Everard, and serial rapist David Carrick.

Officers there felt “unhappy, unloved and bored” and were left “isolated and unwatched”, which made it a “dark corner of the Met where poor behaviours can easily flourish”, the report says

The team also looked at Specialist Firearms Command, and found “a deeply troubling, toxic culture” in which “misogyny is deeply ingrained”.

Casey’s report says the Met “does not easily accept criticism nor ‘own’ its failures”.

Adding that the Met does not “embrace or learn” from its mistakes, it instead starts from a position that “nothing wrong has occurred”.

The report says one of the “saddest aspects” of this culture of denial is that many of the issues highlighted in this report have been known about, reported on and investigated before.

It blames the Met’s culture and poor management for the fact these issues have not been sufficiently addressed, therefore allowing “wrongdoing to persist”.

Casey writes that “the Met has become less effective and is less trusted” with public confidence dipping below 50%. Its management is “inadequate” and it lacks “clear systems, goals or strategies”.

She adds that the Met has been “disfigured by austerity”, frontline policing has been “denuded” and London “no longer has a functioning neighbourhood policing service”.

The force has been “losing its way” and “the worst aspects of its culture have impeded its ability to recognise this”, the report says.

Another finding of the report is that austerity has “profoundly” affected the Met.

The force’s spending is 18% lower in real terms than 10 years ago. This is enough to recruit 9,600 extra officers, it concludes.

Over 12 years, 126 police stations have been closed. The number of civilian staff has fallen by a quarter over 10 years, and restructuring has led to “dedicated but over-stretched and undersupported frontline teams".

Recruitment and vetting systems are failing to guard against those who seek power in order to abuse it, Casey's report also says.

Despite recent “heinous crimes” by some serving officers, the Met “did not stop to question its processes”.

Re-vetting “has been perfunctory”, there are “no systems” to ensure ethical standards are met, and those complaining are “not believed”.

As a result, “predatory and unacceptable behaviour has been allowed to flourish”.