For Sunday reading – An Interesting Blast from the Past

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Posted on February 22, 2015 by Rik

I found this interesting blast from the past.

http://www.cfps.org.uk/domains/cfps.org.uk/local/media/library/5811.pdf

According to page 6, Children and Young People’ Scrutiny Panel (Chair Ann Russell, Vice Chair Colin Barron) under the ‘Staying Safe’ theme.

“The Panel has looked at a wide range of issues including addressing sexual exploitation and the effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements. The recommendations from the scrutiny review on the impact of domestic violence on children and young people have been implemented, leading to service improvements”.

Even in 2006 the Labour party were deluding themselves that all was well. Clearly the scrutiny panels were failing to carry out proper scrutiny of the committees they were supposed to be scrutinising and all should be named and shamed.

The make up of the Scrutiny Panel on page 27 is interesting and shows that the vice chair was Cllr Burton who still constantly claims she knows nothing of CSE even though the Scrutiny Panel were looking at ‘measures to address sexual exploitation of children and young people which is covered on page 18 (work programme 2007/08).

Several members of the panel have since been discredited including Cllr Ali and Cllr Dodson and of course don’t forget Cllr Barron who’s brother, that upright and dedicated MP Kevin, also claims to know nothing about CSE.

Oh and please read the introduction from the Chairman of the Performance and Scrutiny Overview Committee on page 3. I’ll let readers discover for themselves who that was!

The Badger

25 thoughts on “For Sunday reading – An Interesting Blast from the Past”

Yourkypud61 on February 22, 2015 at 7:06 am said:

….and Sir Kev knew nowt! (bring on the libel/slander case)

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- Anonymous on February 22, 2015 at 10:32 am said:
  
  Remember his Daughter been a Councillor since 2000, not close knit family are they.
  
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maltbyblogger on February 22, 2015 at 10:04 am said:

Reblogged this on maltbyblogger and commented:
Surprised the documents were not one of the 21 “lost” laptops . They must think we are stupid . Contemptible behaviour.

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- A regular reader on February 22, 2015 at 6:14 pm said:
  
  But a more interesting question is why a copy can now be found on the The Centre for Public Scrutiny’s website.
  Check them out: http://www.cfps.org.uk/about . and try entering “Rotherham” into their search facility. Lots more of interest may appear.
  
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Caven Vines on February 22, 2015 at 1:47 pm said:

I wonder if Janet Green has any thing to add to the make up of these scrutiny panels ??

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- A regular reader on February 22, 2015 at 1:58 pm said:
  
  Which Cllr Cutts is that?
  
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- Janet Green on February 22, 2015 at 10:15 pm said:
  
  What an odd question. Why would I?
  
  Instead of asking strange hypothetical questions about me, why not answer real questions about your policies?
  
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Dave Froggat on February 22, 2015 at 2:40 pm said:

Any chance this document could be forwarded to Jane Collin’s Legal team wot a gift eh
In a joint statement, the three MPs said: “It is sickening that UKIP could use such an important issue for party-political point-scoring, and we will challenge these defamatory accusations through every means available to prove they are untrue and to stop UKIP exploiting the terrible abuse for their own political gain.” BRING IT ON !!!!!

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- A regular reader on February 22, 2015 at 6:40 pm said:
  
  Her personal email address is janeukip@btconnect.com, why not send it to her, and suggest she sends it on to her legal team? She may even read the email, she then may even do what you suggest, and she then may even reply to you, .but. …. .
  … it would be a lot more sensible to send it to one of the Collins/Hookam MEP joint admin team: http://www.jane-collins.org/team.html and http://www.mike-hookem.org/team.html
  This guy appears relatively competent : james.pawlowski@ukip-ynl.org – try him first.
  Hope that helps!
  RR
  
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The Badger on February 22, 2015 at 3:25 pm said:

Even more damming is this. The Performance and Scrutiny Overview Committee (PSOC) has the following remit:

“The power to ‘call-in’ decisions made by Cabinet Members, asking them to give a full explanation of the decision or to reconsider the matter.” (Page 4).

“Over the 2006/07 municipal year, PSOC has dealt with three call-ins. Though different in terms of content and concerns raised, the call-ins have included consideration of issues associated with community cohesion, the Council’s customer service strategy and what appeared to be a break with
current council policy. In each case Scrutiny’s influence and intervention has resulted in a positive outcome for a range of citizens across the Borough.” (Page 5)

The measures to deal with Child Sexual Exploitation were not ‘called in’ which suggests that the PSOC members agreed with the Children and Young People Cabinet as well as the Children and Young People Cabinet Scrutiny Panel.

The abject failure of scrutiny is there to see and the people involved are all listed on page 27. Lets remember that the PSOC was made up of all Scrutiny Panel chairs and vice chairs which included Stonebridge, Whelbourne, McNeely, Austin, Russell, Burton, Barron, Boyes, Doyle, Jack and of course not forgetting the infamous Akhtar,

The B.

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Anonymous on February 22, 2015 at 3:39 pm said:

Curious and not entirely wise intervention from Austin Mitchell MP in the Independent:-

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/labour-mp-austin-mitchell-even-if-we-selected-a-raving-alcoholic-sex-paedophile-we-wouldnt-lose-grimsby-10061754.html

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- rothpol on February 22, 2015 at 3:42 pm said:
  
  Maybe he wants to loose? More money that way?
  
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  - A regular reader on February 22, 2015 at 4:48 pm said:
    
    Austin Mitchell is standing down in May and he now says: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31574605
    But it didn’t stop the HSBC-Telegraph asking if he is going to defect to the tories. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11157023/Is-Labours-Austin-Mitchell-the-next-Ukip-defector.html
    ________________
    UKIP’s candidate got more than a few laughs recently when she asked:
    “What happens when renewable energy runs out?”
    http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Victoria-Ayling-Renewable-energy-fad-Grimsby/story-26054468-detail/story.html
    
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- rothpol on February 22, 2015 at 5:39 pm said:
  
  Funny how this post was diverted away from highlighting those involved in failure in Rotherham towards making fun of Austin MItchell – a retiring Labour MP? I wonder why that was?
  
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  - A regular reader on February 22, 2015 at 6:55 pm said:
    
    touché ! 🙂
    
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The Badger on February 22, 2015 at 5:25 pm said:

Funny how this post has been diverted away from highlighting those involved in failure in Rotherham towards making fun of a UKIP candidate. I wonder why that is?

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- A regular reader on February 22, 2015 at 5:37 pm said:
  
  Sorry Badger.
  it wasn’t intended – the real aim of my post was to clarify an earlier diversion into the Great Grimsby election – and as you will see it was simply a reply to the comment by Rothpol. Unlike you I didn’t great a new sub-thread – I simply clicked reply – as you should have done – imho.
  
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  - A regular reader on February 22, 2015 at 5:40 pm said:
    
    woopsies: read “I didn’t create” for “I didn’t great”.
    
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hestradahaigh on February 22, 2015 at 6:10 pm said:

Janet Green appears to have gone into hiding – not made one (1) appearance at Anston Parish Council this last year……!

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- Stuart Hale on February 22, 2015 at 6:23 pm said:
  
  I wonder if Janet Green remembers the words “we’re out to get her”. It would appear the worm is turning and those words may well come back to haunt her.
  
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  - A regular reader on February 22, 2015 at 6:59 pm said:
    
    Is this the Janet Green you are referring to ?:
    
    Let’s factcheck the election!
    
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- Janet Green on February 22, 2015 at 9:31 pm said:
  
  Completely mystified. I’ve never …….. never mind just this last year….. attended a meeting of Aston Parish Council.
  
  However, it clearly sounds like a fun night out, so I’ll have to add it to my bucket list!
  
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  - Watchman on February 22, 2015 at 10:23 pm said:
    
    “……attended a meeting of Aston Parish Council………….it clearly sounds like a fun night out”
    It probably is but Hilary was referring to ANSTON PC.
    Do keep up at the back..
    
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bubble on February 22, 2015 at 8:55 pm said:

Ann Cryer talked about the grooming gangs in 2004. It was in all the papers.

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