Report blames sexual grooming of young girls on police failings; MPs call for fairer children's palliative care funding; and a youth offending service in Teeside wins praise, all in the news today.

A catalogue of police failures allowed sex-grooming gangs to flourish in Rochdale, according to a damning leaked report published today. The Guardian reports that an internal investigation by Greater Manchester Police also found a failure to recognise abuse.

MPs have called on the government to provide fair and sustainable funding for children’s palliative care from NHS England and local clinical commissioning groups. During a House of Commons debate, they urged the government to implement Together for Short Lives’ eight policy priorities, which include providing access to funded children’s palliative care and enabling all children and families to take short respite breaks.

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