Report Reveals Police and Council Failings in Rochdale Grooming Scandal

Girls were left vulnerable to abuse for years, with 96 men still posing a potential risk to children.

A report reveals that girls were left 'at mercy' of paedophile grooming gangs for years in Rochdale due to failings by senior police and council bosses.
The report covers the period 2004 to 2013 and identifies 96 men still deemed a potential risk to children.
The report was commissioned by Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and is the result of a six-year investigation.
The report details multiple failed investigations by police and an apparent indifference among local authorities to the plight of hundreds of youngsters, mainly white girls from poor backgrounds.
The report concludes that the scale of abuse in Rochdale was known about by senior and middle managers in the police and children’s social care, but the problem was not given 'sufficient priority'.