The review, published today (20 June) by Greater Manchester Combined Authority highlights “that some children had been failed by the agencies that were meant to protect them because child protection procedures had not been properly followed”.
The review of practices dating back as far as 2005, was commissioned by Oldham Council in 2019.
Despite “consistent” efforts by the council to publicise the risk of CSE to vulnerable children, an examination of 10 complex cases by the review team found that “the quality of casework was generally very poor and characterised by a failure to appropriately initiate multi-agency child protection procedures when these children were known to be at risk of significant harm”.
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