by BRIAN BAMFORD
DESPITE recent efforts to sanitise the news from Rochdale, this week saw the return of the town to the ROTTEN BOROUGHS' columns of PRIVATE EYE with the revelation of a local council-run home, which Ofsted has not named owing to 'safeguarding reasons', at which the inspectors found that there had been little or no control over the residents despite the fact that according to The Eye 'it only provides care and accomodation for six young people at most'.
The Eye reports: 'Following their visit, inspectors reported one girl known to be at risk of child sexual exploitation had shown staff "significicant amounts of money" she had collected while absent from the home....Two children who had gone missing for five days phoned the home and asked to be collected. A staff member told them there was no transport available. As Ofsted reported: "the children remained missing and at risk of harm until the following day".'
Last March, Ofsted classified the home as as "good", but reassessed it in January "following police involvement". The Eye concludes: 'The home has now been barred from taking in any more children until it can prove they will be safe.'
The Eye bemoans the general war cry of the Rochdale Council which when confronted with this kind of child neglect and abuse, which has a local history dating back to Cyril Smith and the grooming of young girls, arguing: 'Haven't we heard it all before?'
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Brian.
Thanks for this.
This is not good. Rochdale failures again. When does Rochdale wake up ?
I have passed the story on to Healthwatch to see if they'll get involved, as someone needs to.
Many thanks,
I think the last time ROCHDALE got into ROTTEN BOROUGHS was when TWO VOTES RANA put one over on the electorate wasn't it?
Good post... As you say, yet another shocking story about exploitation in sunny Rochdale..
Interestingly on the 9 JUL 2018 Neal Keeling in the Manchester Evening News reported: 'Salford's chief executive will be in charge of two local authorities for next six months. Jim Taylor [former Rochdale Chief Exec.] will spend half his working week at Trafford. So that the Salford council’s chief executive will be in charge of TWO local authorities for the next six months.'
And; Keeling also announced: 'Jim Taylor, who earns £153,000 a year at Salford town hall, will spend half his working week at Trafford until the end of the year.'
Better still he says: 'The move could pay dividends for Salford, as Trafford will be picking up part of his wage bill.'
That seems to be more in the public interest than the deal that ROCHDALE'S'TWO jOBS RUMBELLOW' is now getting for doubling-up his Exec. tasks with his generous NHS loot doesn't it?
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