‘Hundreds of people’ could deserve jail over grooming gangs cover-up, claim Tories – UK politics live

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, says there was deliberate action by some police, council leaders, social workers and prosecutors to hide abuseStarmer launches new grooming gangs investigationJohn Swinney, Scotland’s first minister, has announced this morning that the winter fuel payment will be paid to pensioners in Scotland in the same way that it is being paid in England and Wales, the Herald reports. Under devolution, the Scottish government operates its own version of the benefit and does not have to follow what England is doing. But Swinney has said that Scotland will follow the UK government, which announced details of its U-turn on this last week, and pay it this year to all pensioners with an income of £35,000 or less.On the Today programme Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, said that initially she had been reluctant to support calls for a new inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. But she said she had changed her mind in the light of the public concern about the issue. She explained:The thought of having another filled me with horror, and I was reluctant, but when I realised the overwhelming public concern, there’s a real sense justice has not been handed out fairly and there has been a cover-up and intense frustration that there are still victims and survivors who haven’t received justice.I have an intense frustration that, not the frontline staff but further up the management chain, there were people who were actively blocking reports, people who I think, if not held to a criminal standard, should be held to a professional standard for their negligence in protecting those children.I saw people that would have faced the most criticism have left, took early retirement, changed to a different job and some are having very successful careers, and that’s an intense frustration when, because of their negligence, they have continued to let children be exposed and exploited. Continue reading...

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