Heading back to London tonight, it’s hard to process all that’s been revealed today by the review into serious failings in tackling child sexual exploitation in Rochdale. Where to start? The most distressing fact has to be that there are still 96 men at risk to children at large in the area, which is “only a proportion of the individuals engaged in child sexual exploitation” over 2004-2013. Most of them have never been prosecuted. They are ALL walking free tonight. The report has provided total vindication for Maggie Oliver and Sara Rowbotham, the whistleblowing pair who exposed the failings a…
