Council chiefs who ignore child abuse will be jailed

‘Council chiefs, social workers and teachers who fail to act upon suspicions of child abuse face five years in prison to help “eradicate the culture of denial”, David Cameron will announce.

The Prime Minister will warn those who turn a blind eye to child sexual abuse out of a “warped sense of political correctness” that they face criminal prosecution in the wake of the Rotherham grooming scandal.

Police forces will be ordered to treat the threat child sexual abuse as a “national threat” equivalent to terrorism and organised crime.’

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