Measures to protect children from serious abuse must be reviewed following the widespread sexual molestation which was uncovered in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, MPs have warned.
A scathing report from the Communities and Local Government Committee condemned a watchdog for failing to expose failings at Rotherham council which led to the abuse of 1,400 children between 1997 and 2013.
Measures to protect children from serious abuse must be reviewed following the widespread sexual molestation which was uncovered in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, MPs have warned.
A scathing report from the Communities and Local Government Committee condemned a watchdog because it did not expose failings at Rotherham council which led to the abuse of 1,400 children between 1997 and 2013.
MPs recognised the south Yorkshire council had many child protection policies in place, but some were "divorced from reality" and officers had to be held to account for the "systematic" failings.
The committee pointed to Ofsted, the education watchdog, which they said had failed to protect children in the town despite numerous inspections.
The committee also called for an investigation into why key documents from between 1999 to 2003 have gone missing.
However, the town is "not an outlier" for abuse and all councils must review their systems for protecting children while government must look again at its guidance, it added.
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