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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Costly report into Rotherham police failings ‘lets down’ grooming survivors

A teenage girl who said she was a  victim of sexual abuse and grooming pictured in Rotherham
A teenager who said she was a victim of sexual abuse and grooming pictured in Rotherham in 2014. The final report on South Yorkshire police’s handing of multiple such allegations was released on Wednesday. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

A long £6m investigation into multiple police failings during the Rotherham grooming scandal “lets down victims and survivors” by failing to identify any individual accountability, a police and crime commissioner has said.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on Wednesday published what it described as its overarching report from Operation Linden, the name given to a series of investigations it carried out into how South Yorkshire police responded to allegations of child sexual abuse and exploitation between 1997 and 2013.

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