Ah, yes.

As a fairly conscientious public servant, married to an equally conscientious one directly involved in child protection, please don’t confuse senior career managers in thrall to the gravy train with the hard working frontline staff trying to do the impossible with reducing staff levels and funding

Goodness me, who’d have thought it, missing files again!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29660345

Jivehondyjive
Could you put your accusations in summary ?

To be fair to Junkyard, there is so many instances of cover-ups involving child abuse as to verge on the ridiculous.

Hence the setting up of the national inquiry (http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5284/every-mp-asked-to-back-inquiry-into-organised-child-sex-abuse please take the time to read the letter within) which going by the reluctance of the home office to allow any external input into the chair or panel members (the home office itself will be reviewed under the inquiry, as it is responsible for the intelligence services as well as the police) is another cover up in the making, set up to relieve public pressure and avoid excess suspicion.

There are several allegations by victims, care workers, and former intelligence staff that many of these cases involved Mi5 who used care homes to source children to be prostituted to influential figures, who could then be coerced for the political purposes.

Across much of the colonized world, there does seem to be a strange pattern of organized child trafficking and abuse, often involving high ranking members of society and the intelligence services, which is covered up to the best of the respective governments ability.

All the above, I know to be true, having done 100s of hours of research with credible sources.

Just started reading this myself Jambalaya, utterly shocking

Council taken back under Whitehall control, that must be fairly unprecedented

Sounds like the whole things also been handed to the national crime agency to investigate and prosecute 😯

It also appears to have become the place to go and make a name for yourself as being one of the people who went in and sorted it out. Presumably on the basis of whatever happens, it can’t get any worse.

I’ve never seen such a plain-talking and utterly scathing opening to a report about local government. My God she doesn’t mince her words.

Some media still STILL referencing “Asians”…*shakes head*

Will this be the only council?

prosecutions to follow?

@hora – I bet there will be more, but who knows if it is on this scale…

More importantly, I wonder if this report and following police work may make some of our civil servants understand that their responsibility is to country and people, not clambering the ladder, playing power games and covering ar*e.

Interesting perspective @matt
To put some more information down (and as a few examples)
* I was asked to be acting head of centre while boss was on ‘holiday’. I was a freelancer. It transpired it was not holiday, it was enforced leave, and the first few days I was there I had all sorts of folk come and go through filing cabinets and computers. I at the time had no reason given, was just shown council badges and told to get on with running the instructors. When the boss returned, he turned up on my doorstep in a real (crying) state one night, as lots of files had been deleted off his computer that he needed to evidence bullying – he went off on permanent sick, and I have not heard from him again.
* when doing the stock take, we had three canoes (rather nice ones) missing, and lots of top end tents, sleeping bags, wood paddle etc on inventory, but not in stores. Again, I was told to ignore by senior chap in council youth services. Rumor from staff was that there were a few council officials with nice boats and expedition kit in their garages that matched the missing items.
* lots of the regular freelancers just suddenly stopped being used, and were removed from ‘the list’. They all happened to be friends / known well to the above outgoing boss.
* New project set up, lots of resources, staff, equipment etc all purchased, only for the project to fail less than 6 weeks in due to low take up – and all the kit such as computers and posh office chairs just vapourised over a few days, to the consternation of the staff, two of whom were sacked for poor timekeeping (despite having only done three weeks work, and with no direct manager for that time).
* staff who had for years quietly kept a boat in the boat park owned by the council handed a bill for storage of the boats, and given immediate written warnings…yet the bills were never chased up, just the warnings on their records when then applied for new jobs…
* at the end of my three weeks acting head, we had an incident of theft in the office – I called the police when it became apparent that it may have been a member of staff who came down each week with a group, and it had happened before seemingly. Before the police got there, a manager from the council was there who grilled me, asked me to withdraw from police action and basically removed me from the temporary post there and then. I never even got to speak to plod in the end – the council manager did…the case went nowhere.
*etc
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Yes some was usual council politics and feathering the nest, but much felt very orchestrated and deliberately aimed at removing some folk and bullying them when they did not fit in.
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All this is of course in perspective, when you consider the harm that young people have come to in Rotherham. 😐

I hope many many councils take heed and sort their rotten barrels. 🙁

I hope its all proceedurely followed properly this time so the **** can’t bring unfair dismissal etc.

Some of the comments. A Police officer said to a victim ‘you won’t be the first to be raped by X and you won’t be the last’.

Wow.

did you read the report?

have a look at what happened in Keighley as well. Anne Cryer was going on about this problem for years, Have a look at what happened to the few other people who said it was happening, look at what happened when they made a documentary about it

community relations

Jump before you’re pushed? So if they all resign, will it still be full gold-plated pensions for all? I think we can guess the answer to that one. I’m sure they had their lawyers check the small print and get it all signed off before they walked. They’re utterly shameless!!

Chances of any single one of them facing criminal charges? As they rightfully should? Zero!

I’m sure that to add insult to injury, while they walk away, totally uncaring, after the untold damage they did **** all about, Rotherham council tax payers will now foot the bill for all the rightful compensation claims against the council.

They want stringing up!

I suspect that what was (and still is) going on in Rotherham is going on all over the place.

The problem is with local government and an endemic culture of cronyism. You see it in all the northern provincial authorities. Look what happened with the elected PCC’s. The first thing they all did was appoint a deputy[/url], who happened to be one of your cronies. On a salary of up to 80 grand a year. I don’t remember that being mentioned in any of their manifesto’s.

Up here in places like Rotherham or Rochdale, you could stick a labour rosette on a melted, half-empty packet of Rolo’s and it’d get elected. On a pitifully low turnout admittedly. So as such, the labour party becomes the de facto politburo, in complete charge of handing out jobs and funding (lets not call them ‘favours’ eh?).

So, over decades a culture of patronage has developed. You brown nose, back-slide and ‘network’ your way into the good books of whoever the rising power in the local council is. Its like Communist era Moscow up here. With cabals running personal fiefdoms with public money!

So then when you look at a position like ‘Head of Childrens Services’ comes up in any of these places, the council leaders/cabal don’t look at who’s best qualified for the job. Who would be the most effective. Who has the most experience or expertise in the field. Not a bit of it. Because that doesn’t even matter. What they ask is ‘who’s next? Who’s turn is it? Who’s been the most loyal yes man. And they decide who they’re handing the huge (taxpayer funded) salary, no-questions-asked expense account, and gold plated pension too. What they’re actually asked to pretend to do is irrelevant. Whether they’re any good at it? Not really a consideration.

The whole problem is a rotten, corrupt crony culture that is now expected by party apparatchiks. It is the opposite of a meritocracy. And when the price paid by society is child abuse on an industrial scale, then it needs addressing. Though there seems little will to do it. And where do you start? Its now endemic!

You really think that’s what it was?