Rotherham Council NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE

[geared 317]

Aren't they still working through the case backlog of the actual offenses? Once they've got most of the offenders stewing in jail it's going to be easier to offer them incentives to inform on those who were protecting them.

 

Yes, and thanks to the stunning cover-up job done it's likely most will go free.

 

They managed to arrest 3 the other day, for crimes committed 15 years ago when they themselves were teenagers.

[Bludragonfly 10]

I fear the electorate of Rotherham will get the council they deserve. The red rosette dazzles them. They will turn out to disrupt a march protesting about the cover up of the grooming scandal. They will tut tut at the pub about the cost of the measures required because their council was UNFIT FOR PURPOSE, but they will probably still put their cross in the box to re-elect those who were behind the whole damned mess.

 

 

10 seats out of the 21 up for election last year were won by UKIP

 

 

The results this year are almost irrelevant because the commissioners make 99% of the decisions with or without talking to the 'advisory cabinet' made up of a few councillors with the 'leader' and 'dep leader' both up for relection next week

[smiggs 10]

Yes, and thanks to the stunning cover-up job done it's likely most will go free.

 

They managed to arrest 3 the other day, for crimes committed 15 years ago when they themselves were teenagers.

 

Totally with you there, given that South Yorkshire police were in on it as well, I hold out little hope of actually getting to the bottom of the cover-up unless someone reveals all for a sweetheart deal.

[Harvest 10]

Yes, and thanks to the stunning cover-up job done it's likely most will go free.

 

They managed to arrest 3 the other day, for crimes committed 15 years ago when they themselves were teenagers.

 

Isn't that the way in South Yorkshire. Hillsborough, Rotherham grooming scandal, MP in jail for fraud. They just send out a different face with the same rosette and then try and blame it all on Thatcher.

[Tommo68 10]

The facts remain. That some as well as some police officers Labour MPs and Labour councillors on a Labour Council plus some employees of the labour Council and some teachers all it would seem contributed to the suffering of the girls in Rotherham at the hands of the Asian paedophiles; they allegedly contributed either by choosing to ignore the incidents or failing to act or worse still by covering up the incidents.

 

I can not imagine why anyone in Rotherham that was not an Asian paedophile or one of their supporters would vote for labour ever again.

 

But as they say you can't educate park so doubtless some, presumably through stupidty ignorance or slavish habit will vote labour as they have always done and always will do.. they can't help it they just can't or won't inderstand and probably do not care about other people's daughters.

 

Personally I find these people almost as contemptable as the ones mentioned in my first paragraph.

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[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Let's see the effects- after tomorrow- of RMBC's conduct.

[Nijinsky 10]

This was briefly mentioned on 5 live today, but had to trawl through the "regions" to find it on the BBC news website.

Obviously not as important as a "sexist jibe" made 6 months ago by a UKIP candidate.

 

Fresh evidence has emerged that authorities in Rotherham were warned about child sexual exploitation in 2003 and again in 2006.

Police and council officials took no action despite being told organised gangs were grooming and abusing girls.

Ex-South Yorkshire Police drugs analyst Angie Heal said she "cannot fathom" why her reports did not lead to action.

Last year, an inquiry found 1,400 children were abused by gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani origin.

The abuse happened between 1997 and 2013.

In the first report, released under a Freedom of Information request by The Sheffield Star, Dr Heal warned in 2003 there was no room for complacency over the issue.

However, in a follow-up report three years later, she again detailed the problem saying the situation in Rotherham was established and very serious.

'No holds barred'

The reports, which also highlighted child sexual exploitation in Sheffield, said girls in Rotherham were being abused by gangs also involved in drug dealing and violence.

The findings came about after Dr Heal was appointed in her capacity as a strategic drugs analyst to carry out research on drug use, drug dealing and related problems in the county from 2002 to 2006.

The 2014 Jay report, which uncovered the scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, makes reference to Dr Heal's 2003 report being contained in an information pack, which was presented to Rotherham Council in November 2004.

It also states both the 2003 and 2006 reports were sent to high ranking offices and other agencies including South Yorkshire Police's district commander and chief superintendents.

Rotherham Council, which is now run by government appointed commissioners, said it had been "unable to find any reference to the documents being formally considered" by the authority.

"I just cannot fathom why no action, no concerted action, was taken," said Dr Heal, who has since left the South Yorkshire force.

"There didn't seem to be a co-ordinated response from senior police officers to this really, really serious crime."

Speaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, one abuse victim said the lack of intervention was "sickening".

"They knew what was happening yet they still let myself and many others suffer and be raped on a daily basis."

"Even 13 years on, I've been fighting constantly just for answers."

Findings 'widely known'

South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings said agencies knew about Dr Heal's reports at the time but were focusing on other issues.

"The reports are utterly shocking. When you read them there's no holds barred," he said.

"They went not only to police and local government but to safeguarding boards and the national government. It was widely known what she said.

"I think there are more people that have questions to answer than the police. The only sense I can make of it is that at that time, police were prioritising other things like burglary and car theft. I don't think anyone understood what grooming was."

In a statement, South Yorkshire Police admitted to past failings and pointed to an ongoing investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission into misconduct issues.

It said it had made "significant progress" in tackling child sexual exploitation but understood more "needs to be done".

"Anyone that understood the issues of child sexual exploitation and abuse would have thought there was a moral duty to act, let alone a legal duty," Dr Heal added.

"It meant that a significant number, over 1,400, continued to be abused, exploited, raped, their families devastated by what happened.

"It makes me really angry and very upset that it was allowed to continue."

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

So it's always someone else's fault.

[Nijinsky 10]

Have you actually read the above post?

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Have you actually read the above post?

Yes. That's why the blinkered PC-fixated attitude, paying no heed to the abused children's plight, is so depressing; and also why Labour in Rotherham might soon be out on its ear.

[Nijinsky 10]

South Yorkshire Police has covered up abuse on a “massive” scale in the former industrial city turned multicultural melting-pot, a retired veteran police officer has claimed, remarking in an interview the abuse was “bigger than Rotherham”.

 

The revelation by the former officer, who served for thirty years, could be yet another in a long line of emerging child sex scandals in predominantly northern English cities with sizeable Pakistani populations. It is not the first such revelation for South Yorkshire Police, who also failed to detect and prosecute criminal abuse in the city of Rotherham, where 1,400 known girls were trafficked and raped by a network of criminals using take-away shops and minicab firms to enable their activities.

 

A Sheffield city council employee tasked with tracking child sex abuse has claimed almost 700 children were referred to the police in just two years, but not a single prosecution was made on the back of the information passed to the police.

 

Retired constable Tony Brooks has come forward with the allegations, and has said South Yorkshire Police have long known that girls as young as twelve – putting them into the most serious category of sex abuse – were being raped, but chose not to act on the information they had, effectively creating a cover-up. Claiming 200 girls were reported to have been abused in just a three year period in the city, he told the BBC “The size of the exploitation was massive in Sheffield.

 

“We offered to form a unit to continue the work – we offered to advertise our work so girls would come forward. We were told, ‘it’s not going to happen, return to your districts.”

 

“He said to me, ‘go and spend an hour or two with each girl and find out what’s happened to them and tell them there’s not enough evidence to go on”. The officer refused to follow the order.

 

Police analyst Gary Birchall, who also spoke to the BBC, expressed his disbelief after he learnt of the extent of the cover-up. He was asked as part of his work to look into a special operation run by the South Yorkshire Police, and paid for by Sheffield city council which was tasked with looking into child sex abuse. He found that despite it having been specifically requested and funded to the tune of £50,000, the operation had been shelved almost immediately with officers reassigned to other work.

 

He requested a “full investigation” into the failure, but his call went unheeded. Speaking on the matter, he said: “I got a call telling me the operation’s been shelved. I said it can’t be shelved, there’s evidence here that children are being trafficked, being sexually abused. There isn’t a superlative that describes how I felt then or how I feel now. Utter, utter, disbelief.”

 

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Labour are a shoe in again I`m afraid

[RickyM 10]

It's been run by Labour for god knows how long, what does anyone expect?