...Dozens of teenage girls suspected of being groomed and abused in Manchester by gangs of men from Asian backgrounds were failed because police feared upsetting race relations, a new probe has suggested.
...Now, a bombshell report suggests Greater Manchester Police and the city council shelved an investigation into what was happening at least partially because of the "Many sensitive community issues" they felt faced with.
...The verdict forms part of the probe - carried out by childcare expert Malcolm Newsam and former Cambridgeshire Police detective Gary Ridgway - into how sexual child exploitation was dealt with in the city in the early and mid-2000s.
...The report finishes by calling on the police and council to consider how "The people who appeared to present a risk to children in 2004 can now be brought to justice and any risk they still present to children mitigated".
...Joanne Roney, the chief executive of Manchester City Council, said: "This report makes for painful reading. We recognise that some of the social work practice and management oversight around 15 years ago fell far below the high standards we now expect. We are deeply sorry that not enough was done to protect our children at the time."
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