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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Matt Watts

Rotherham child abuse scandal: IOPC report into police failings ‘lets down’ grooming survivors

A total of 47 current and former officers were investigated by the IOPC after it was revealed at least 1,400 girls were abused, trafficked and groomed in Rotherham

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A watchdog’s long-awaited report into more than 200 allegations of police failures in relation to child sexual exploitation in Rotherham "fails to identify any individual accountability" and "lets down victims and survivors", a police and crime commissioner has said.

South Yorkshire Police (SYP) admitted "we got it wrong and we let victims down" after the report by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) concluded the force "failed to protect vulnerable children".

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