It comes after a bombshell report about paedophile grooming gangs in Rochdale
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has called for a culture change in the police after a bombshell report about paedophile grooming gangs in Rochdale.
The damning 173-page review covers 2004 to 2013 and sets out multiple failed investigations by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and apparent local authority indifference to the plight of hundreds of youngsters, mainly white girls from poor backgrounds, all identified as potential victims of abuse in Rochdale by Asian men.
The report identifies 96 men still deemed a potential risk to children, but this is “only a proportion” of the numbers involved in the abuse.
Burnham said: “it is only by facing up fully and unflinchingly to what happened in all of its horrifying detail that we can be sure of bringing about a whole system culture change that is necessary.”
