GETTY STOCK Council executives who failed to stop the sexual abuse of girls are to keep their pensions

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They were cleared of individual blame in a series of reports that held no one to account yesterday. The six reports probed the systematic failures over 16 years at Rotherham council where social workers and senior town hall staff allowed British-born men of Pakistani heritage to rape, traffic and abuse white girls. They found that staff feared intervening because it would lead them to being branded racist. Not only did the reports rule out legal action against the shamed executives but they also explicitly confirmed they will continue to receive gold-plated pensions because their failings were more “cock-up than conspiracy”.

GETTY The six reports probed the systematic failures over 16 years at Rotherham council

Local MP Sarah Champion said the conclusions were devastating for victims whose lives have been destroyed by the scandal.

It appears that no individual at RMBC has yet been held to account for their role Local MP Sarah Champion

The former shadow women and equalities secretary was forced to quit her Labour frontbench role last month for saying that the UK had a problem with British Pakistani men “raping and exploiting white girls”. Yesterday she said: “I had hoped that the publication of the reports into Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) preventing child sexual exploitation would draw a line under the catalogue of errors that led to our children being let down so badly by those supposed to protect them. “However, despite these huge failures, leading to at least 1,400 victims being let down, it appears that no individual at RMBC has yet been held to account for their role.”

GETTY STOCK At least 1,400 girls were sexually abused by gangs of Asian men

She added: “How are the survivors meant to rebuild their lives without the closure these reports could have brought? “How is Rotherham meant to have confidence that this will never happen again unless we know exactly what went wrong? This feels like a completely wasted opportunity to allow the town to move forward.” Victims were expecting executives such as former leader Roger Stone being taken to task over their roles in failing to stop the “industrial” sex abuse of children. Mr Stone reportedly did not want Rotherham to be known as the “kiddie fiddling capital of Britain” and was desperate to “avoid a race riot” which instigating action against Asian taxi drivers might have provoked. The reports were published yesterday on the council’s website.

GETTY The report says there is 'little or anything' that can be done against former senior council staff