Month: February 2022

The Metropolitan Police has apologised “for when we let children in the care of Lambeth down”. The inquiry into the council, held in the summer of 2020, examined five homes – Angell Road, South Vale Assessment Centre, the Shirley Oaks complex, Ivy House and Monkton Street. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report said:… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 5

Staff and councillors presided over a “culture of cover-up” that led to more than 700 children in south London care homes suffering cruelty and sexual abuse, an inquiry has found. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse strongly criticised Lambeth Council for allowing abuse in five homes from the 1960s to the 1990s. It said… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 4

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse recommendations include improving the advice and guidance given to police and local authorities, a tighter definition of the problem, and the collection of ethnicity data. There was a “flawed assumption” that this form of child sexual abuse was on the wane, the inquiry’s chair Prof Alexis Jay said.… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 3