Jailing those who fail to act on child abuse won’t stop another Rotherham | Simon Jenkins

The government’s plan to criminalise social workers, teachers and care staff if they turn a blind eye to child abuse will only result in defensive practice

Should you go to prison if you don’t do your job properly? That is the concept behind the government’s new regime for teachers, social workers, police and council staff dealing with young people. If they ignore cases of child sex grooming, they are tolerating what the prime minister bizarrely calls “a national threat”. They are guilty of “w...