Three reports into Rotherham child abuse have gone missing

Three reports warning of child abuse in Rotherham are missing from council archives and two of them weren't even discussed in council meetings.

The suspicious absence of these reports means that anyone new coming into the council would be unaware of the problem and would have to "discover" the extent of the problem for themselves.

Joyce Thacker, the chief child snatcher at Rotherham Social Services, was asked if the reports had been removed from archives in a "deliberate attempt to suppress information" and replied that she was unable to answer. Presumably because she doesn't want to incriminate the people who refused to do anything to stop the abuse of 1,400 children in Rotherham because they were more worried about being accused of racism than the welfare of the children they were supposed to be protecting.

The deputy leader of the council, Cllr Paul Lakin, says that he is dissolving the current Labour cabinet and appointing a new one. Replacing a cabinet full of Labour councillors who negligently allowed 1,400 children to be abused with another load of Labour councillors who negligently allowed 1,400 children to be abused is unlikely to satisfy the people calling for the mass resignation of Rotherham's Labour councillors.