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"There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made witness to brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone.
"Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators."
"Officers in senior positions responsible for children's safeguarding services throughout the critical periods when services fell some way short of today's standards do not work for the council today," he said. "To that extent, I have not been able to identify any issues of professional practice related to current serving officers of this council that would require me to consider use of disciplinary or capability procedures."
The report says there was a series of failings including poor leadership from senior managers in child protection services and a perceived "lack of interest" in, and understanding of, grooming as a model of child abuse. Victims were not heard or believed and there was a perception that a “macho and bullying” culture within the council prevented child sexual exploitation from being properly discussed.
originally posted by: ArchPlayer
Well, ole Iron Crotch Thatcher is probably doing a dance of glee in hell, happy that her crony politics have created such a lovely existence in her native Britain. #Sarcasm
originally posted by: ArchPlayer
Well, ole Iron Crotch Thatcher is probably doing a dance of glee in hell, happy that her crony politics have created such a lovely existence in her native Britain. #Sarcasm