| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:15 - Jul 28 with 927 views | Ajack_Kerouac |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 23:50 - Jul 27 by londonlisa2001 |
Lambeth itself was a conservative council for some of the period covered by this and was also with no overall control for some of it as well.
This making it about ‘lefties’ is absolutely ridiculous, and shows that some on here will use anything to make some anti lefty point. Others do the same in making anti right points.
These are kids. I can’t imagine they much cared which party the leader of the council was when they were raped by a doctor or foster parent. |
Lambeth Council was Tory for 3 years. It was a protest vote against Harold Wilson's tax rises, it then went back to the Left...and then further and further Left.
It was run by self-declared Marxist Ted Knight FFS!
Ken Livingstone? Apologist for Chairman Mao's murder of 45 million people in the name of Socialism. Give me strength.
The borough was known for being the most corrupt, the most bribery scandals...meanwhile the people elected to responsibly run public services were grandstanding to protest the Tory government (...they did exactly what these Texas Democrats have done recently).
It's funny, you are all for Tories taking responsibility for disasters like Grenfell, the most Left wing council in the UK gets a pass for the abuse of hundreds (probably thousands) of kids however.
Although there are some abusers everywhere I think it is obvious that these crimes were committed on this scale because of the culture within Lambeth council. |  |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:21 - Jul 28 with 911 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:11 - Jul 28 by felixstowe_jack |
So in the last 60 years it was under labour for 50 years , conservatives for 6 and no control for 5. |
So?
The period in question saw it being run by Labour, both lunatics and more normal, no overall control and Conservatives.
What’s happened since is neither here nor there.
Plus, the one making it party political is Kerouac.
Unlike Kerouac, I’ve lived in Lambeth. For about 11 years. How about you? [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 0:43]
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:34 - Jul 28 with 908 views | Ajack_Kerouac |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:21 - Jul 28 by londonlisa2001 |
So?
The period in question saw it being run by Labour, both lunatics and more normal, no overall control and Conservatives.
What’s happened since is neither here nor there.
Plus, the one making it party political is Kerouac.
Unlike Kerouac, I’ve lived in Lambeth. For about 11 years. How about you? [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 0:43]
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It was the most Left wing council with the most 'progressive' policies in the UK, the kind of policies you support today...and the report specifically made mention of the politics of the Council leaders being their focus rather than the Council's responsibilities.
"The one making it party political is Kerouac" you say...
You didn't manage to read the report or all of the other comments on the thread before mine then? How about Controversial Jack's post, the very post before my first?
Blind are we?
I've lived in Gower for the last 11 years, I've lived in Wales all my life. Does that make my opinions on Swansea or Welsh politics more valid than yours does it?
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:42 - Jul 28 with 906 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:15 - Jul 28 by Ajack_Kerouac |
Lambeth Council was Tory for 3 years. It was a protest vote against Harold Wilson's tax rises, it then went back to the Left...and then further and further Left.
It was run by self-declared Marxist Ted Knight FFS!
Ken Livingstone? Apologist for Chairman Mao's murder of 45 million people in the name of Socialism. Give me strength.
The borough was known for being the most corrupt, the most bribery scandals...meanwhile the people elected to responsibly run public services were grandstanding to protest the Tory government (...they did exactly what these Texas Democrats have done recently).
It's funny, you are all for Tories taking responsibility for disasters like Grenfell, the most Left wing council in the UK gets a pass for the abuse of hundreds (probably thousands) of kids however.
Although there are some abusers everywhere I think it is obvious that these crimes were committed on this scale because of the culture within Lambeth council. |
Ted Knight was the leader of Lambeth council in the early 80s (possibly end of 1970s). He was the one who led the rates rebellion stuff.
The care home issue in Lambeth started in the 1960s. Way before his time. The care home that is the centre of much of this, Shirley Oaks in Croydon was shut by the early 80s. The worst issues there were all around the mid to later 70s, culminating in the death of the young boy in 1977. One of the ladies interviewed was talking about the early 1970s. Another was abused between 1964-1967.
The culture of Lambeth in the 80s when it was battling Thatcher was dreadful. The report today rightly points out that they were so tied up in that they took their eye off absolutely everything. But to blame them for a culture which by the time they were in place had been established for some 20 years is absolutely crazy.
You seem to see words or names and seize on them. Livingstone for example. He was never involved in Lambeth council after he’s done some campaigning in Norwood in his early years. He was on the GLC instead. People like Peter Mandelson were on Lambeth council n those days as well, who were hardly rampant commies.
I do blame the council. I blame loads of people. Unlike you, I have understood the dates that this stuff happened and not tried to politicise it where it’s obviously not all happening at the same time. [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 0:54]
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:53 - Jul 28 with 892 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:34 - Jul 28 by Ajack_Kerouac |
It was the most Left wing council with the most 'progressive' policies in the UK, the kind of policies you support today...and the report specifically made mention of the politics of the Council leaders being their focus rather than the Council's responsibilities.
"The one making it party political is Kerouac" you say...
You didn't manage to read the report or all of the other comments on the thread before mine then? How about Controversial Jack's post, the very post before my first?
Blind are we?
I've lived in Gower for the last 11 years, I've lived in Wales all my life. Does that make my opinions on Swansea or Welsh politics more valid than yours does it?
Truly absurd. |
There were several comments about lefties before the stupid comment by Controversial.
Yes, I have read the parts of the report that are public. We also had an in depth feature about this on our local news after the ten o’clock national news tonight.
The point about Lambeth and you not living there is that you have absolutely nothing to go on other than snippets you’ve picked up by a quick Google followed by you mistakenly then leaping about thinking it was all to do with ‘lefties’ despite the dates not matching up for most of the period in question.
I know it mentions the focus of the nut job lefty loons in the report - that’s why I’d mentioned it several times. But the main focus, in the home in Croydon (which is not even in Lambeth by the way but was was under the responsibility of Lambeth council) was way before that lot emerged.
As I said, the party politics bit, and believe me, I have absolutely nothing in common with any sort of lefty lunatic faction, as anyone that read any of my diatribes against Corbyn would attest, is a red herring for much of this. It’s their lack of focus that has been slated. Other groups have also played a big role. | | | |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 01:02 - Jul 28 with 885 views | Ajack_Kerouac |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 00:42 - Jul 28 by londonlisa2001 |
Ted Knight was the leader of Lambeth council in the early 80s (possibly end of 1970s). He was the one who led the rates rebellion stuff.
The care home issue in Lambeth started in the 1960s. Way before his time. The care home that is the centre of much of this, Shirley Oaks in Croydon was shut by the early 80s. The worst issues there were all around the mid to later 70s, culminating in the death of the young boy in 1977. One of the ladies interviewed was talking about the early 1970s. Another was abused between 1964-1967.
The culture of Lambeth in the 80s when it was battling Thatcher was dreadful. The report today rightly points out that they were so tied up in that they took their eye off absolutely everything. But to blame them for a culture which by the time they were in place had been established for some 20 years is absolutely crazy.
You seem to see words or names and seize on them. Livingstone for example. He was never involved in Lambeth council after he’s done some campaigning in Norwood in his early years. He was on the GLC instead. People like Peter Mandelson were on Lambeth council n those days as well, who were hardly rampant commies.
I do blame the council. I blame loads of people. Unlike you, I have understood the dates that this stuff happened and not tried to politicise it where it’s obviously not all happening at the same time. [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 0:54]
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1) Lambeth Council was Labour for nearly all of the 1960s.
2) Lambeth Council was run by the far Left in the mid to late 70s
3) The lurch to the far Left in the 70s did not happen in a vacuum, it might have had something to do with having a Labour council for all but 3 of the previous 30 years.
4) The report specifically holds the far Left Labour council responsible, but I suppose they just don't understand the dates and are attempting to politicise it? OR, they believe the majority of the abuse was allowed to take place under that Council...hmmm, which is more likely.
5) I understand dates and history very well thank you ver much...here is a fair balanced article that should give insight to the political culture of the far left in the 1970s;
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/when-is-a-scandal-not-a-scandal-
6) The Greater London Council was involved with that "dreadful" behaviour during the rate capping rebellion and the Lib Dems supported it too (see Simon Hughes);
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-capping_rebellion
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 01:27 - Jul 28 with 881 views | ItchySphincter |
Politicising child abuse.
Quelle surprise……… |  |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 08:36 - Jul 28 with 826 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 23:28 - Jul 27 by londonlisa2001 |
With respect, this is not a left wing nor right wing issue.
This whole scale sickening abuse involves not only the council but also the police, doctors, notable members of the local community and there have been some allegations about others being involved higher up the political chain as well And it lasted from the 60s through the 70s to the 80s, so a lot of it is well before the period mentioned by the prof.
As with the recent cases in places like Rotherham and also the cases involving the church, both here and elsewhere, the one thread they have in common is not party politics, but is the powerful, of whatever political persuasion, treating the powerless, often the most powerless in society, children in care, as subhuman playthings for their perverted enjoyment. And when someone summons up the most incredible bravery to report it, they are repeatedly ignored and treated with utter contempt, whether that be other council officials or employees, or whether it be the police. Even the people who are not directly involved, are happy to turn a blind eye to their ‘peers’.
The whole thing is absolutely sickening.
The politics of Lambeth in the 80s undoubtedly played some part as they were so hell bent on playing games that they didn’t manage their affairs well, but scratch the surface a little and there are bigger things involved. |
Well that's what I said, this issue should not be clouded by political bias, but as you can see sadly it is even on this forum, it's the way of things these days. |  |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 09:55 - Jul 28 with 802 views | onehunglow |
It is the way of things.
Lisa like most on here are labour people ,full on and for ever.Ergo,they will rail against any criticism of labour people and councils.
Fact.
The criminals of Rochdale and Sheffield have had little in the way of approbrium from them on here and PS. It is mainly Tory bashing. Fact.
Tories are seen as filth scum by many on here. I'm not too keen on them myself right now but sometimes you just have to say it a it is and Lambeth council seems the most rotten of all and this in our capital city. | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 12:07 - Jul 28 with 774 views | trampie |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 09:55 - Jul 28 by onehunglow |
It is the way of things.
Lisa like most on here are labour people ,full on and for ever.Ergo,they will rail against any criticism of labour people and councils.
Fact.
The criminals of Rochdale and Sheffield have had little in the way of approbrium from them on here and PS. It is mainly Tory bashing. Fact.
Tories are seen as filth scum by many on here. I'm not too keen on them myself right now but sometimes you just have to say it a it is and Lambeth council seems the most rotten of all and this in our capital city. |
You have got that wrong , I've checked a couple of recent polls out , the last 2 I found on here :-
Tories 10 votes, Abolish Welsh Assembly 10, Plaid 9, Labour 5, UKIP 4 and Plaid 25, Abolish 24, Labour 6, Tories 3
That is a combined total of Abolish and Plaid both on 34, Tories on 13 and Labour 11.
I seem to remember Lisa saying she had voted Lib-Dem in one election not that long ago.
Wales used to be solid Labour not quite as solid these days as compared to years gone by, Swans fanbase used to be solid Welsh in sentiment, now English sentiment and right wing sentiment have taken over and are at least on a par on this site, which is sad to see as sport is tribal and Swansea is a Welsh club, you like to attack all things Welsh and all things on the left but claiming that most on here is Labour is 100% wrong per some polls on this site. [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 12:25]
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 12:13 - Jul 28 with 766 views | onehunglow |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 12:07 - Jul 28 by trampie |
You have got that wrong , I've checked a couple of recent polls out , the last 2 I found on here :-
Tories 10 votes, Abolish Welsh Assembly 10, Plaid 9, Labour 5, UKIP 4 and Plaid 25, Abolish 24, Labour 6, Tories 3
That is a combined total of Abolish and Plaid both on 34, Tories on 13 and Labour 11.
I seem to remember Lisa saying she had voted Lib-Dem in one election not that long ago.
Wales used to be solid Labour not quite as solid these days as compared to years gone by, Swans fanbase used to be solid Welsh in sentiment, now English sentiment and right wing sentiment have taken over and are at least on a par on this site, which is sad to see as sport is tribal and Swansea is a Welsh club, you like to attack all things Welsh and all things on the left but claiming that most on here is Labour is 100% wrong per some polls on this site. [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 12:25]
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"attack all things Welsh".
Jesus ,man,look at the OP .It is nothing to do with Wales at all. | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 12:23 - Jul 28 with 755 views | trampie |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 12:13 - Jul 28 by onehunglow |
"attack all things Welsh".
Jesus ,man,look at the OP .It is nothing to do with Wales at all. |
I'm responding to you talking about Labour and posters on this thread, you personally attack all things Swansea, Welsh, left wing.
You say people on this site are all Labour, which is totally and utterly wrong, there are more Tories on this site than Labour if posts and polls on here are anything to go by. [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 13:05]
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:05 - Jul 28 with 715 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 09:55 - Jul 28 by onehunglow |
It is the way of things.
Lisa like most on here are labour people ,full on and for ever.Ergo,they will rail against any criticism of labour people and councils.
Fact.
The criminals of Rochdale and Sheffield have had little in the way of approbrium from them on here and PS. It is mainly Tory bashing. Fact.
Tories are seen as filth scum by many on here. I'm not too keen on them myself right now but sometimes you just have to say it a it is and Lambeth council seems the most rotten of all and this in our capital city. |
I’m not a Labour person ! Did you never read my thoughts on Corbyn etc,
I just think trying to score political points from horrific child abuse is abhorrent. It’s not a party political matter. Same as the stuff about Saville being a Tory. That’s abhorrent as well.
These people are sick, vile animals. And yet people are looking for an angle to use to make some anti Labour point. Others do it to make anti Tory points. Or anti U.K. points. Or anti Wales points.
Just think what is important in this stuff and bloody stop.
How does Lambeth seem the most rotten of all? It’s yet another one in a long line of organisations, whether councils, churches, homes, care homes, whatever, that constantly fail the most powerless in society. Backed up by a ‘justice’ system that doesn’t listen to them. And, lest we forget, a prime Minster that literally described looking at these historic abuse cases as ‘spaffing money away’. | | | |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:19 - Jul 28 with 705 views | Catullus |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 18:25 - Jul 27 by Professor |
I should add, that poor social services seemed to be a general feature of London regardless of the party in control at that time and well into the 2000s. Lack of intervention a common feature of high profile neglect and abuse. |
I said "political" Prof, not because I'm blaming the left but purely because it'a what happens whoever is in charge. Tory, Labour or Libdem, their political bias can cloud judgements, can cause problems. As with this case, it may not even have been the councillors knowing about it, if they were too busy being political and fighting the tories, did they just take their eye off the ball? If they did it's still negligence and it enabled abuse.
Whatever the reason though, yet again the people who are supposed to be helping the vulnerable have instead taken advantage and the people with the power to stop it, to change it for the better, did nothing.
Negligence is criminal as well as the abuse. | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:20 - Jul 28 with 703 views | pikeypaul |
Lefties turning a blind eye to the scum pedophiles and the council that “allowed sexual abuse to flourish” disgusting but hardly surprising.
What is it with these people? |  |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:31 - Jul 28 with 694 views | onehunglow |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:20 - Jul 28 by pikeypaul |
Lefties turning a blind eye to the scum pedophiles and the council that “allowed sexual abuse to flourish” disgusting but hardly surprising.
What is it with these people? |
Pikey.
Without doubt they are and it is shameful.
This happened in labour stronghold Rochdale. Labour activists ,females at that have been even dismissive of complainants .
It is appalling and ,as you say,little but mealy mouthed drivel has spouted from Labour lips. Where are Abbott,Lammy and the lovely Dawn Butler on this.
It really is political as politics invades all our lives,like it or not.
When the appalling Grenfell happened,Labour London politicians wasted no time in calling out the Tories as responsible even though both parties in Kensington were to blame.
I find things profoundly depressing right now. A weak PM , a craven Home Secretary who has shown nothing but contempt for the Police Officers she purports to represent and support.
Look at the state we're in. | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:35 - Jul 28 with 685 views | trampie |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:20 - Jul 28 by pikeypaul |
Lefties turning a blind eye to the scum pedophiles and the council that “allowed sexual abuse to flourish” disgusting but hardly surprising.
What is it with these people? |
The managers of such establishments, the house masters, the professionals that look after problem children are far more likely to be Tories than lefties at that time. | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:40 - Jul 28 with 677 views | Flashberryjack |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:35 - Jul 28 by trampie |
The managers of such establishments, the house masters, the professionals that look after problem children are far more likely to be Tories than lefties at that time. |
How do you work that one out ? the fact is, you don't know, but you do know which council was in charge, and that was Labour. |  |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:45 - Jul 28 with 666 views | onehunglow |
I think young ones on here forget the open and tacit upport Livingstone gave to the IRA both it cause and methods,at the height of their power.
A man who cwtched up to all manner of despot too.
A Labour man,a Labour Mayor ,a Labour MP. | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:53 - Jul 28 with 664 views | trampie |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:40 - Jul 28 by Flashberryjack |
How do you work that one out ? the fact is, you don't know, but you do know which council was in charge, and that was Labour. |
Exactly, that is my point, that is why I replied, it's unknown what political persuasion the perpetrators were or what political persuasion the people that possibly turned a blind eye were, the people in position of authority, managers and the like were more likely to be Tory than Labour at that time were they not ?, as mangers tended to be Tory and workers Labour in that day and age, the main men in the council are at arms length compared to people in authority on the ground and don't forget if looking at arms length the Government of the land between 1979 and 1997 was the Conservatives. [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 17:12]
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 17:36 - Jul 28 with 627 views | Flashberryjack |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 15:53 - Jul 28 by trampie |
Exactly, that is my point, that is why I replied, it's unknown what political persuasion the perpetrators were or what political persuasion the people that possibly turned a blind eye were, the people in position of authority, managers and the like were more likely to be Tory than Labour at that time were they not ?, as mangers tended to be Tory and workers Labour in that day and age, the main men in the council are at arms length compared to people in authority on the ground and don't forget if looking at arms length the Government of the land between 1979 and 1997 was the Conservatives. [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 17:12]
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Lambeth council were the authority responsible for the running of the children's home, and Lambeth council was a Labour run council, the political persuasion the dirty b*stards that committed these awful crimes is totally irrelevant. | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 18:26 - Jul 28 with 609 views | trampie |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 17:36 - Jul 28 by Flashberryjack |
Lambeth council were the authority responsible for the running of the children's home, and Lambeth council was a Labour run council, the political persuasion the dirty b*stards that committed these awful crimes is totally irrelevant. |
It's been a Conservative run council as well, it's not a left or right issue, but some posters on here are making it a left issue when it's neither a left or right issue. [Post edited 28 Jul 2021 18:33]
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 20:23 - Jul 28 with 577 views | Ajack_Kerouac |
So there you have it.
Even when the report into the abuse specifically calls out the Left wing radicals involved in that council at the time...our Left wing posters on here STILL rush to defend that council and seek to con any naive readers of the forum into thinking that the Tories were as responsible for what went on in Lambeth as the radical Left wingers who created the culture in Lambeth Council.
From the article in 'The Guardian'(!!!)...
"The council failed on multiple occasions to protect children, including employing staff who it knew posed a risk to children, failing to investigate employees suspected of sexual abuse, and exposing children to situations where it knew they were at risk of abuse.
The effect on many children in Lambeth’s care was devastating, the report says. As one witness, known as LA-A309, put it: “I felt from an early age that my feelings were inconsequential or of little value and that my pain didn’t matter. It was clear from an early age that no one really cared about me.”
Over 40 years just one senior employee was disciplined for their part in the catalogue of abuse. Six perpetrators of sexual abuse connected to Lambeth homes, some of whom were council employees, were convicted of child sexual abuse between 1994 and 2019.
Many staff in Lambeth children’s homes “demonstrated a callous disregard for the vulnerable children they were paid to look after”. Some failed to act when they knew about sexual abuse, and showed little compassion to the victims. “It was as if staff intended to create a harsh and punitive environment,” the report concludes.
It is also critical of the children’s services inspectorate, Ofsted, and its predecessors, for failing to to do enough to identify the serious failures in services and staff practices, and the Metropolitan police for failing to properly investigate links between offenders identified in separate criminal investigations.
IICSA has recommended the Metropolitan police investigate the case of one child, known as LA-A2, who was found dead in a bathroom in one of the homes, Shirley Oaks, in 1977. The report found the council had failed to inform the coroner that he had alleged he was sexually abused by a staff member there.
The leader of Lambeth, Cllr Claire Holland, said: “Lambeth council wishes to re-state our sincere and heartfelt apology to all victims and survivors of abuse and neglect while in Lambeth’s care. The council was responsible for their care and protection but failed, with profound consequences. The council is deeply sorry for their experiences.”
The report is scathing of what it calls the “progressive” leftwing culture of the council in the 1980s. “Many councillors and staff purported to hold principled and beliefs about tackling racism and promoting equality but in reality they failed to apply these principles to children in their care.”
It notes that the overwhelming majority of children in its homes were black. At Shirley Oaks in 1980 57% of the children in care were black; at South Vale home children a decade later 85% of the children were black. “Racism was evident in the hostile and abusive treatment towards them by some staff.”
The chair of the inquiry, Prof Alexis Jay, said the children in care were pawns in a “toxic power game” within the council in the 1980s and 90s, which was characterised over many years by bullying, racism, nepotism and sexism, against a backdrop of political chaos, corruption and financial mismanagement." | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 20:51 - Jul 28 with 563 views | onehunglow |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 20:23 - Jul 28 by Ajack_Kerouac |
So there you have it.
Even when the report into the abuse specifically calls out the Left wing radicals involved in that council at the time...our Left wing posters on here STILL rush to defend that council and seek to con any naive readers of the forum into thinking that the Tories were as responsible for what went on in Lambeth as the radical Left wingers who created the culture in Lambeth Council.
From the article in 'The Guardian'(!!!)...
"The council failed on multiple occasions to protect children, including employing staff who it knew posed a risk to children, failing to investigate employees suspected of sexual abuse, and exposing children to situations where it knew they were at risk of abuse.
The effect on many children in Lambeth’s care was devastating, the report says. As one witness, known as LA-A309, put it: “I felt from an early age that my feelings were inconsequential or of little value and that my pain didn’t matter. It was clear from an early age that no one really cared about me.”
Over 40 years just one senior employee was disciplined for their part in the catalogue of abuse. Six perpetrators of sexual abuse connected to Lambeth homes, some of whom were council employees, were convicted of child sexual abuse between 1994 and 2019.
Many staff in Lambeth children’s homes “demonstrated a callous disregard for the vulnerable children they were paid to look after”. Some failed to act when they knew about sexual abuse, and showed little compassion to the victims. “It was as if staff intended to create a harsh and punitive environment,” the report concludes.
It is also critical of the children’s services inspectorate, Ofsted, and its predecessors, for failing to to do enough to identify the serious failures in services and staff practices, and the Metropolitan police for failing to properly investigate links between offenders identified in separate criminal investigations.
IICSA has recommended the Metropolitan police investigate the case of one child, known as LA-A2, who was found dead in a bathroom in one of the homes, Shirley Oaks, in 1977. The report found the council had failed to inform the coroner that he had alleged he was sexually abused by a staff member there.
The leader of Lambeth, Cllr Claire Holland, said: “Lambeth council wishes to re-state our sincere and heartfelt apology to all victims and survivors of abuse and neglect while in Lambeth’s care. The council was responsible for their care and protection but failed, with profound consequences. The council is deeply sorry for their experiences.”
The report is scathing of what it calls the “progressive” leftwing culture of the council in the 1980s. “Many councillors and staff purported to hold principled and beliefs about tackling racism and promoting equality but in reality they failed to apply these principles to children in their care.”
It notes that the overwhelming majority of children in its homes were black. At Shirley Oaks in 1980 57% of the children in care were black; at South Vale home children a decade later 85% of the children were black. “Racism was evident in the hostile and abusive treatment towards them by some staff.”
The chair of the inquiry, Prof Alexis Jay, said the children in care were pawns in a “toxic power game” within the council in the 1980s and 90s, which was characterised over many years by bullying, racism, nepotism and sexism, against a backdrop of political chaos, corruption and financial mismanagement." |
I would say that is pretty damning. Staggering to see trampie plum even greater depths by aligning Wales to this story . Are people really that short sighted and parochial.
I would also suggest those of the many left leaning posters pop up and condemn this council and others before it.Labour or not. This is a major scandal and it aint the Tories.
Ideally, there should be many dismissals and prosecutions ,starting with senior Police and Social Workers who clearly allowed this to flourish.
God knows the Met is notoriously perverse but this disclosure of these practices and the ambivolence and negligence make me sick. | |
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| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 23:16 - Jul 28 with 513 views | trampie |
| Lambeth Council - Difficult to Believe on 20:51 - Jul 28 by onehunglow |
I would say that is pretty damning. Staggering to see trampie plum even greater depths by aligning Wales to this story . Are people really that short sighted and parochial.
I would also suggest those of the many left leaning posters pop up and condemn this council and others before it.Labour or not. This is a major scandal and it aint the Tories.
Ideally, there should be many dismissals and prosecutions ,starting with senior Police and Social Workers who clearly allowed this to flourish.
God knows the Met is notoriously perverse but this disclosure of these practices and the ambivolence and negligence make me sick. |
You constantly get things wrong all the time, I haven't aligned Wales to this story, I know Lambeth is England. | |
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