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The report found that in more than a third of these cases the youngsters were already known to child protection agencies. It said there had been “blatant” collective failures by the council’s leadership.
The extent of the sexual exploitation of young girls is horrific. Almost as shocking as the details of that abuse is the abject failure on the part of social services to protect these children.
Vulnerable girls were often not believed by the authorities because of their troubled backgrounds, consequently they were denied help not due to lack of resources, but due to a lack of concern.
Time and again we see the same pattern repeated. Until those in authority focus on the sexual abuse and not the symptoms of that abuse, the lives of vulnerable young people like the victims in Rotherham will go on being ruined.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...inds-1400-children-were-victims-live-coverage
This is the report’s executive summary, which makes for devastating reading. It is worth reading in full.
http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_inquiry_cse_in_rotherham
It really is extremely hard to read.
I feel sick and I'm shocked!:scowl:
The extent of the sexual exploitation of young girls is horrific. Almost as shocking as the details of that abuse is the abject failure on the part of social services to protect these children.
Vulnerable girls were often not believed by the authorities because of their troubled backgrounds, consequently they were denied help not due to lack of resources, but due to a lack of concern.
Time and again we see the same pattern repeated. Until those in authority focus on the sexual abuse and not the symptoms of that abuse, the lives of vulnerable young people like the victims in Rotherham will go on being ruined.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...inds-1400-children-were-victims-live-coverage
This is the report’s executive summary, which makes for devastating reading. It is worth reading in full.
http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_inquiry_cse_in_rotherham
It really is extremely hard to read.
I feel sick and I'm shocked!:scowl: