OXFORD 'Grooming' Serious Case Review - heads to roll?

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To be published tomorrow morning 11 am. Damning apparently.

So, just like Rotherham, systematic failure after failure. What will happen here in Oxford? Who will resign?

The Council Chief Exec Joanna Simons has at last decided to go, after many calls to step down, the boss of Oxford CC saying the her Chief Exec's job is not needed anymore, so she won't be replaced (why was it needed in the first place then?) ...and she's getting a tidy pay off in the region of 600 grand!

Thames Valley Police Chief Constable, Sara Thornton, who held the reins while all this went on. What's happening to her?
She's decided to stand down too after 14 years here. She's leaving 'with an heavy heart'. Off to her new role in a few weeks time to become Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council (a newly created association replacing the old ACPO).

Someone round here said this week, how widespread is all this grooming?

One answer was 'If you think it's not happening where you are, you're not looking!'

Unbelievable. What have we sunk to?

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La Liga said:

I'm sure they'll be more to come.

Some of the over-arching factors that caused this were nationally consistent, for example:

1) An excessive focus upon central targets for crime types likes burglary at the expense of other things not measured like CSE.

2) A diversity agenda that made people scared to say "these ethnic groups are committing a disproportional amount of this".

Or as Sara Thornton said in 2010 after Thames Valley Police received a dreadful 'Fair' (interspaced with 'poor') for their performance that year.

'In the last year we have detected more serious sexual offences and hate crimes than last year and our performance when dealing with the most serious offences is very strong.'
Oh really? Today's report shows you missed rather a lot too!

She followed that off by the important bit...

'We are also pleased to note the excellent performance in reducing those killed or seriously injured on our roads.
This follows a long-term downward trend which is delivered as a result of the excellent work by the Road Policing Department and local partners in the Safer Roads Partnership.'

At that same time 5 years ago there was a police commander who I believe had his desk on the floor under Thornton's office at Thames Valley Headquarters here (Kidlington). He was about to appear at Southwark Crown Court... what was his name? Oh yeah, Ali Dizaei.

Some record we have round here. We knew that. But the question is, is it really countrywide?

I'll repeat again though what someone round here said:

'If you don't think it's happening where you are, you're not looking!'

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Foliage said:

Claudia Skies said:

What no-one seems to concern themselves about is the huge practical difficulties of "controlling" difficult teenage girls without locking them up. I doubt the girls involved here would take kindly to lifestyle advice from hand-wringing, middle-class do-gooders.

What's more, we are supposed to believe these forms of abuse magically stop when the girls reach 18 years old and make their own decisions. Yeah right.

What do you mean? its the girls fault?

Just listening to a discussion and apparently some of the girls (boys taken as well, it's been said) opened up about what was happening to them and got no help from authority, one girl was told it is 'your tradition'. Bloody hell!

This country!