One of the things that is truely disheartening to me, everytime i look into the issue of Child sexual exploitation. Is this disregard by the authorities to actually want to make a bad situation better. It would seem to the naked eye that they actively seek to exacerbate a problem plaguing over the United Kingdom. Not to mention the #PizzaGate situation.
Scotland Yard is worse at helping children at risk than it was 12 months ago and failed to handle properly 90 per cent of the child protection cases examined by the police watchdog, according to an assessment last month. The Met was criticised for the poor attitudes of officers dealing with missing children, delays of up to three days in responding to cases, failures to record the concerns of children and a lack of proactive investigation.
The report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services found “significant weaknesses in the service provided to the children of London”. Last week the Met said that it would review hundreds of rape and sexual abuse cases after two trials collapsed because of disclosure failures.
The inspectorate’s assessment was delivered on November 27, a year after it handed down what sources said was the “most damning review” in its history. Inspectors found in 2016 that three quarters of child protection and abuse cases were poorly handled and that the force, then led by Lord Hogan-Howe, focused more on burglary and vehicle theft. Amber Rudd, the home secretary, ordered quarterly inspections of the force’s child abuse command amid alarm that it could be sitting on a Rotherham-style grooming scandal.
Lord Hogan-Howe’s successor, Cressida Dick, promised to prioritise safeguarding issues when she took over the Met in April. In the November report inspectors reviewed a random sample of 135 cases involving possible child sexual exploitation, missing children, domestic abuse cases and other forms of abuse. They found that just under 93 per cent were “inadequate or required improvement”. The report said that there was a “disappointing quality of investigations and outcomes” and 18 cases were sent back to the force for further investigation. The inspectorate’s report did not include all aspects of the Met’s work in countering child abuse. Last year’s inspection involved a larger sample and the results were better, although still poor — 278 of 374 cases were inadequate or required improvement.
The latest inspection said: “The number of weaknesses uncovered in too many of the cases examined in this quarter continues to reflect those which we reported in 2016.”Matt Parr, the London inspector, told The Times
that a key failing last year was that the senior leadership was not engaged with the grooming risk that came with missing children. He said that the issue had been prioritised at the highest level of the Met but the need for change had not filtered down to ordinary officers. He said: “We don’t underestimate the challenge of bringing change in a force the size of the Met. We get that it is hard but we are a little disappointed that we haven’t seen the senior engagement [result in] demonstrably better outcomes for children, a year after we made the very critical report.”
The same 135 cases were also assessed internally by the Met and, the inspectorate said, the “ray of light” was that the Met’s overview team also believed that the investigations were wanting. Mr Parr did not conclude that standards had fallen; this was because of proactivity at senior level and the fact that the quarterly report referred to a smaller sample.
The latest inspection revealed that children who should have been categorised as missing were being labelled as being at “no apparent risk”, and there were delays in responding to reports of missing children, from six hours to, in one case, three days. In some cases there was no communication with social services about missing children even when they were known to the authorities. There was not enough proactive investigation. Inspectors also found that officers made inappropriate comments in relation to missing children, such as “it’s what they always do”. (because yes children just wander around into other peoples houses)
While inspectors found examples of “good child-centred investigation” relating to possible exploitation, there were others in which officers failed to speak to child victims of an offence. The Met acknowledged it was not yet achieving improvements across all areas. A spokeswoman said: “Keeping London’s children and young people safe is a priority. In response to the findings of HMIC’s 2016 inspection, a comprehensive plan was initiated to improve our child protection services. We recognise the urgency of improving our services, but we know that delivering real and sustainable improvements will take time to achieve. Our improvement plans are kept under continual review.”The last of the quarterly reports will be delivered next month. It is likely that Ms Rudd will order further regular reports if the Met has not substantially improved.
This is a complete disaster. There has been no "improvements" on keeping London's children's safe. Actually the government is striving to put the citizens of the London in harms way. 400/2000 jihadis have already come back to UK. One million WHITE British children have been targeted over the many decades.....
Nothing has improved. Absolutely nothing!!
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