Tom, not entirely due to race but certainly one of the main factors. You know how the majority of taxi drivers are , you know Muslims? I know of several policing campaigns which set out to improve the mechanical conditions of said taxis, for the safety of the public but were always stopped due to accusations of racism from the taxi drivers themselves. So they are allowed to drive on while bits are falling off and the brakes don’t work.

“Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.”

I’d say the fear of being thought racist is a central plank of the PC agenda. I doubt however the official report will say much about this.

Plenty of people are concerned about losing their livelihood if they say or do the wrong thing.

The BBC will dedicate less airtime to this harrowing story than the time it dedicated to trashing the career and livelihood of a football manager for saying a few dodgy things in private text messages.

I’m with Tom on this one…

whilst it’s fair to say political correctness and accusations of racism may have played a role, you have to look at the bigger picture: this isn’t an isolated case as Jimmy Savile proves.

There are organized paedophile networks across the country, with some members of the various bodies who should be protecting vulnerable children doing quite the opposite. It’s certainly not merely down to race.

We will just have to wait until the official report, which as always will clear everything up, released no doubt on a badnewz day (sorry!).
Exit badnewz pursued by bear.

Does anyone honestly think it was just Rotherham, Oldham, the Catholic Church. It seems like there is some massive and systematic failure of social services …

This is Political Correctness Gone Mad.

There you go, I’ve said it. The ‘sensitivities’ around identifying the race of the majority or the perpetrators will have led to missed opportunities to make connections, elevate the issue to the appropriate levels, and to have it stopped sooner.

If anyone can find a better example of wilfully ignoring a key truth in a series of serious crimes, I’d like to hear it.

PC created the conditions in which this could go on for as long as it did.

If you think otherwise you are deluding yourselves.

Political Correctness has its place. It is generally a good thing as it changes the tenor of prevailing attitudes for the better. It should not be a reason not to identify and report serious crime, however.

And what connections would those be? It would only highlight the most basic connections and nothing extra that a list of names and associates would not. If you fail to act on child abuse cases because one can’t see an overarching racial dimension to the abuse, that tells you a lot about the motivations of the police.

Really? The police didn’t investigate the issue because they were scared of being accused of racism?

You know, there’s nothing in law that you could be prosecuted for, for something as simple as reporting a statistical matter such as race. The council would have known this, so there are other reasons for their failure.

So it didn’t effect the investigation, it just upset the public.

Precisely Project, the lot of them should lose their jobs. The PC stuff is a shite excuse.

Given the problems recruiting and retaining child protection workers at the moment, even before the next round of cuts comes in, prepare to be shocked for a few years to come.

Unless all of you internet experts want to change career and play the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” game with media reporting of child protection cases.

Impossible to justify or condone what has been reported in this case, but it’s a damn sight easier from behind a screen with all the facts at your fingertips and a good dose of hindsight.

Edit: blimey, I’m agreeing with ernie again.

The social workers I know see some truly horrible things. I think it is fair to say that most of their cases are on problem estates, with problem families, which have been incentivised by 30 years of left-wing utopian thinking.
Mass immigration and political correctness are essential tools in the arsenal of your average cultural revolutionary and I think the extent of both the abuse and the cover-up are a damning indictment of the social and cultural revolution which your average STW’er likes to defend to the hilt on these forums.
It’s nothing to do with spending cuts or too few social workers.

LOL

I blame Thatcher !

I blame Thatcher !

I like how he thinks the left ‘incentivised’ young girls into being raped.

I think one of the most damning statements in the report is:

Seminars for elected members and senior officers in 2004-05 presented the abuse in the most explicit terms. After these events, nobody could say ‘we didn’t know’. In 2005, the present Council Leader chaired a group to take forward the issues, but there is no record of its meetings or conclusions, apart from one minute.

If wilful neglect like that isn’t grounds for a charge of misconduct in public office, then I don’t know what is!

Thatcher, that grey fella and Blair make left wing utopia. **** me, quality

Errr, no.

Irrelevant. They committed crimes. People in authority knew about. People in authority were cowed by not wanting to appear racist. As a result, the process of uncovering and stopping these crimes was hampered.

You have an agenda. You wish to push it with a few smoke and mirrors and trying to turn the argument on its head. Ten out of ten for effort, but in this case you are wrong. Plain, good ‘old-fashioned’ (I know that’s very uncool as well) wrong.

Here’s a thought, what happens if you’re a Councillor of said areas and kick up a big fuss about groups of Asian men raping and abusing young girls/women in these predominantly Asian/Muslim areas, your gonna take a serious nosedive come next elections, I don’t think it’s all about being PC, it’s also about trying to save their own necks.

What is wrong is that this case shows how normal moral considerations (by any sane judgement) can be subverted by a desire not appear racist. It is explicitly stated within the report. I’m not sure how you can double-speak your way back out of it, but you seem to be having a good go at it.

I think you are a zealot, and as such there is no point in trying to reason it out further. It is plain as the nose on your face, but when dogma gets in the way of the bleeding obvious, then the situation is beyond hope I fear.

Dannyh, the only reason was PC gone mad lefty police chiefs and council leaders ?
It would be easy if reality was a simp!istic as that

These girls are from the shit end of society,the same people described as scum, chavs etc on the council house neigbours thread from yesterday

Their parents seem to have abandoned them or had them taken away, I believe most were in care, education and social services obviously hadn’t done enough to protect them.
The police apparently had similar attitudes, untrustworthy, unreliable witnesses, not worth protecting, just chavs, skanks,slags, language you hear throughout society, scared of being called racist? I had no idea coppers are so delicate

And ultimately these mainly Pakistani men viewed them even less as people and more as objects.