Council bosses in Rotherham who were criticised for failing to protect 1,400 young girls from grooming gangs have gone on to become Government advisers, bankers and an “executive coach and mentor”. The Mail has more.
Sonia Sharp
Dr. Sharp served as Director of Children’s Services in Rotherham between 2005 and 2006 and acknowledged her failure to protect girls, saying: “You can’t be the Director of Children’s Services and not take responsibility for what happens to children.'” …
After a period working for Sheffield council, Dr. Sharp moved to Australia, where she became Deputy Secretary for Education in the state of Victoria.
Following the publication of the Jay report in 2014, calls grew on her to resign – which she eventually did in 2015. …
She is now a partner at consultancy EY Australia, with a profile on the company’s website describing her as having “dedicated over 30 years to public service, with 17 years as a senior executive in the U.K. leading education and child and family services, and most recently as Deputy Secretary in the Victorian Government”. …
Jahangir Akhtar
Mr. Akhtar became Deputy Leader of Rotherham council in 2011, also serving as Vice-Chairman of the South Yorkshire police and crime panel.
The Jay report suggested he may have decided to ignore a “politically inconvenient truth” when he claimed not to have been aware of the “deep-rooted problem of Pakistani-heritage perpetrators targeting young white girls”.
He was forced to ‘step aside’ from his role as deputy leader following allegations that he had been involved in a deal to help Arshid ‘Mad Ash’ Hussain, a relative accused of grooming an underage girl.
He then lost his seat to Ukip at last year’s local elections. …
Mr. Akhtar, a former taxi driver who was previously seen posing with Ed Miliband, was suspended from the Labour Party in 2014 and today works for Spanish bank Santander.
He is also the Director of a social enterprise providing “educational support services” and “social work activities” at a Rotherham mosque. …
Mr. Akhtar was also later stripped of his taxi-driver licence after a ‘fit and proper person’ test was introduced by the council.
Ged Fitzgerald
Mr. Fitzgerald was criticised for “missing opportunities” to tackle grooming while CEO of Rotherham Council from 2001 to 2003.
A report commissioned by the authority and released in 2017 was also critical of its former boss, finding that a “more rigorous” approach by the top official to child sexual exploitation could have resulted in a “very different” outcome for victims.
Despite his performance in Rotherham, Mr. Fitzgerald later headed up Sunderland City Council, Lancashire County Council and Liverpool City Council.
He was later arrested in 2017 following a probe into financial irregularities at Lancashire County Council and resigned from Liverpool City Council the next year.
In 2022, he was charged with misconduct in public office and procuring the misconduct of others.
He now advertises himself as an executive coach and is a certified member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
His profile reads: “I am a former Chief Executive of 18 years standing who has moved into executive coaching and mentoring in 2020. I am self-employed.”
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First take ze migrants, zen take ze bugs, zen rip out ze gas boilers, zen get on ze bicycles. —Ve have vays of impoverishing you and making you feel zo happy about it.
It’s not Ireland but look at this. Nasty, callous, treacherous b’stards! Damn right they need named and shamed. Zero budget when it comes to migrants, though, as if we need any reminders as to where their loyalties lie;
”Yesterday Parliament voted 348 to 228 to end winter fuel payments to pensioners. They were all Labour MPs.
Here is a video of every MP who voted for the measure. They deserve to be famous.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1833924307379945690
Knock all the green sh*t off the bills, then no need to bump up the allowances.
You ain’t seen nuthin yet Ron——Despite Miliband’s bare faced lies, bills are only going in one direction————UP UP UP——-Hey Miliband you are a f….g LIAR
I seriously don’t know how this feckin lot sleep at night.
We can all see Starmer sleeps very soundly.
He is not in the least careworn despite all the adverse exposure of the past two months and more.
He is loving every minute.
Take a good look at his face.
No empathy.
Compare Yvette ‘Allo Allo’ Cooper who is looking care worn.
Did you see the cheering when they won the vote? It was like England had just scored against Germany. Cheering because they have won the right to kill pensioners as indicated by their own study back when the Tories were thinking about removing the allowance, that said up to 4000 pensioners might die if the allowance was removed. ——Meanwhile migrants refurbishments including satellite TV will make sure the illegal aliens are nice and cosy this winter. I hope they chuck in a Netflix subscription as well since the poor vulnerable aliens should not have to be going without the latest films and TV series.
To be honest, I watched that clip a couple times and couldn’t detect cheers, only people shouting ”shame!”. But I see that after that decision was declared Lammy announced Ukraine needed a ‘few’ more million quid. Priorities…Anyone would think these sociopaths don’t have elderly parents themselves, but I guess freezing to death from hypothermia is just a working class problem;
”Wow. David Lammy just gave another 600 Million to UKRAINE. We are living in a clown world . Do you believe any of these clowns when they say they are fixing the foundations and can’t give heating allowances to pensioners.”
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1833928932367954398
There’s nothing wrong with living in the stone age.
Stone age peoples managed so we should be fine.
Anyone saying different do not pass go and go straight to the Scrubs for 18 months for being a Far White racist thug.
One of Ireland’s great charms and strengths is the Irish people.
Soon to be no more.
Bye bye Irishness and Irish people.
Maybe they need some dog and cat munching Haitians?
LOL.
PS. I have read numerous reports and seen a number of online videos saying this has been happening in Springfield Ohio the population of which was overwhelmed by an influx of 20,000 Haitians.
Maybe we should house some in the UK in Keir Starmer’s street or Angela Rayner’s?
I have the ideal place for Haitian criminals. —-No not prison. The Lion enclosure at the London Zoo.
The Government in Ireland recently signed up to the EU’s ‘Pact for Migration’, which makes migration into the EU continuous and permanent. The EU says that all member states must sign up to this pact and those that refuse their quotas will be fined a large sum of money.
Ireland is already swamped with migrants but they seem to want more. As their society continues to disintegrate it is likely to become like France with criminal trafficking gangs transporting migrants across the border into Northern Ireland. The UK is invaded from two directions.
There needs to be an emergency debate in the HoC about this issue.
We are not in the EU, allegedly, so why can’t we simply make companies pay tax on what they make here? Rules are made to be changed after all.
Any chance that Starbucks will give a warm spot and free coffee etc. to pensioners? We live in a poor world indeed when Labour MP’s cheer the fact they have succeeded in murdering Pensioners but do nothing about major companies making obscene profits.
It all depends on what the double taxation treaties say for legal persons domiciled or resident in a different jurisdiction.