Police safeguarding systems were flawed but a report finds no evidence of a grooming cover-up.
Children in Oldham were failed by the agencies meant to protect them from sexual abuse, a review has found.
It investigated the alleged grooming of children in council homes, shisha bars and by taxi drivers in Oldham. She went to Oldham police station to report being sexually assaulted in October 2006 and was told to come back when she was "not drunk".Victims, particularly "Sophie" was let down, said Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham
"If this had happened, it may have potentially avoided the tragic abuse of other children...," the report states, citing "serious multiple failures" by both GMP and the local authority.The report pointed out that while most arrests for child sex offences by GMP in the period between September 2009 and July 2010 then identified the alleged offenders as being Asian, they were likely to have generally related to British men of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage.
Police failed to tell council about arrest of Rochdale grooming gang leader who was employed as welfare rights officerGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the report had "identified a number of wrongs that needed to be put right". Oldham Council Leader Amanda Chadderton said she was "deeply sorry" that "our services at the time were not good enough to protect vulnerable young people suffering the most awful abuse".Greater Manchester PoliceMaggie Oliver, who resigned from GMP over its handling of grooming gangs, says the report shows again "catastrophic failings"
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