THERE are very few totally blameless incidents within social care but it appears that the major scandal in Rotherham where sex gangs preyed on young girls was one of them.

None of the leading front-line officials at the time in social services, the council or the police admit they were at fault in any way or that they weren’t doing their job properly.

As it’s very likely that this horrible abuse of the young is still going on and not just in Rotherham, major positions like these need to automatically involve carrying the can for what goes wrong. This always used to be the case, but the honourable way of falling on your sword has gone very much out of fashion.