From what I've read about Rotherham, it sounds like there were problems with how the Local Authority acted with too much political correctness for want of a better expression. However, the police should have investigated crimes a lot more objectively than they did. I don't know where the blame lies, but the police as a whole seem to have too cosy relationships with a lot of establishments.

But I neither said, nor believe, any such thing! I said the oposite. I said that the social services etc agencies have to press on with their work regardless of the inevitable flak they will get, for the reasons I gave. How could you interpret that as meaning the opposite of what it states?


You say this glibly, but I say it isn't possible. Steps coould and should be taken to do what we reasonably can to identify children at risk and to do what we can to try to safeguard them, but "stopping" such abuse is I'm afraid an impossible and extremely naive belief.


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