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Alison Kelly, director of nursing at the Northern Care Alliance’s Rochdale Care Organisation, has been suspended following accusations of ‘failing to act’ when she was the senior...
Date Published 21/08/2023
The Prime Minister and Home Secretary met with survivors of sexual exploitation for the launch of a new taskforce dedicated to stamping out grooming gangs who target children and...
Date Published 03/04/2023
John Taylor is the leader of the local Conservative party in Rochdale and a councillor for Wardle and West Littleborough. This month he dedicates his column to discussing the 2%...
Date Published 15/03/2023
A senior Rochdale councillor has apologised after the authority was forced to U-turn over ‘insensitive’ plans to name a street after Richard Farnell – the late former leader found...
Date Published 13/03/2023
Rochdale council has U-turned on plans to name a street after late former leader Richard Farnell, who was found to have lied under oath to the national sex abuse inquiry.
Date Published 09/03/2023
The final report of a seven-year-long study into child sexual abuse – which included a Rochdale investigation – has been published, which demands urgent action to ensure children...
Date Published 29/11/2022
Former council leader, Richard Farnell, has died aged 62. Mr Farnell was first elected onto Rochdale Council as a councillor for Newbold ward in 1980. He became the leader of the...
Date Published 20/08/2021
Councillor Allen Brett has been ousted as the Leader of the local Labour Party and the Leader of Rochdale Borough Council. A vote at the Labour group AGM today (9 May) saw...
Date Published 09/05/2021
A demonstration to “protect our kids” took place in Rochdale town centre on Saturday 24 April. The protest, led by Parents Against Grooming UK, comes after it was revealed that...
Date Published 28/04/2021
A damning report has found that politicians spent decades turning a “blind eye” to allegations of child sexual abuse, including those made of former Rochdale MP, the late Cyril...
Date Published 26/02/2020
Former leader of the Liberal Democrats, David Steel, 81, has resigned from the party and withdrawn from the House of Lords after a damning report by the Independent Inquiry into...
The lawyer who represented Knowl View victims at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) is urging the Labour Party not to reinstate former Rochdale council leader...
Date Published 19/06/2019
Former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Lord Steel has been reinstated by the party after he was suspended over comments he made about former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith.
Date Published 17/05/2019
Police investigating allegations former Rochdale council leader Richard Farnell committed perjury when he appeared at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) say...
Date Published 08/05/2019
The Liberal Democrats have suspended former leader Lord Steel over comments he made to an inquiry about former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith.
Date Published 15/03/2019
Former Liberal leader Lord Steel has admitted to an inquiry he nominated former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith for a knighthood eight years after he apparently confessed to sexually...
Date Published 14/03/2019
A Rochdale support group specifically for male survivors of sexual abuse featured on BBC North West Tonight on Monday (12 November).
Date Published 16/11/2018
The leader of Rochdale Council has been summoned to appear before a standards committee six months after a recording was leaked of him suggesting he might not spend money in...
Date Published 30/10/2018
Cyril Smith has been posthumously stripped of the Freedom of Rochdale over his sickening catalogue of child abuse over three decades.
Date Published 18/10/2018
Cyril Smith could have the borough’s highest honour posthumously removed, 26 years after he was bestowed the accolade.
Date Published 11/10/2018
Many turned out to support a march against child sexual abuse and exploitation on Saturday (25 August).
Date Published 28/08/2018
Former leader of Rochdale Council Richard Farnell is being assessed for perjury by London Metropolitan Police after it was alleged he had lied under oath during an Independent...
Date Published 12/07/2018
A former Liberal leader has described child sex abuse allegations against former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith as “tittle tattle”.
Date Published 06/06/2018
A special briefing of The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) report into historic failings in Rochdale institutions was presented to a council scrutiny meeting on...
Date Published 23/05/2018
Councillor Allen Brett has been re-elected as the Leader of the local Labour Party and hence the Leader of Rochdale Borough Council.
Date Published 06/05/2018
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has published its interim report, making 18 recommendations to better protect children from sexual abuse.
Date Published 01/05/2018
“I found these attempts to cover-up abuse very strange” – these are just some of the words former Rochdale-MP Simon Danczuk wrote in October 2017 to the Chairwoman of the...
Date Published 21/04/2018
Rochdale Borough Council is considering compensating child sex abuse victims after it was criticised in a report for failing to protect vulnerable children.
Date Published 20/04/2018
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) report into failings in Rochdale institutions between 1960 and 1996 is to be considered by the council ahead of a formal...
Date Published 17/04/2018
Solicitor Richard Scorer, who represented victims at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), has called for Rochdale Council’s “toxic” political leadership to be...
Date Published 16/04/2018
