The Rotherham abominations are not a challenge to multi-ethnic Britain: people of all backgrounds are united in their revulsion at what has happened. Nor are they a challenge to religious pluralism: no faith condones child abuse. They are, though, a challenge to the way we run some local councils. If you take a group of people, not all of them terribly bright, and encourage them to be more concerned with following procedure than with doing the right thing; if you elevate compliance over conscience; if you teach your staff them that everything – everything – should be seen through the prism of race, you will end up with much injustice and an occasional atrocity. Islington, Haringey, Rotherham – the scale of the horror varies, but the underlying cause doesn’t.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:31:45 +0000
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