BBC reporter offered copy approval to Telford child safeguarding chairman in follow-up to Sunday Mirror grooming scandal scoop

A BBC reporter offered copy approval to the chairman of Telford council’s child safeguarding board in following up a Sunday Mirror scoop exposing Britain’s “worst ever” child grooming scandal. The journalist – whose name was redacted in emails seen by Press Gazette – sent the first draft of a story to Andrew Mason, chairman of the Telford and Wrekin Safeguarding Children Board.TimelineDecember 13, 2018BBC News appoints its first LGBT correspondent who says new role is ‘dream come true’December 12, 2018BBC to explore Rupert Murdoch’s influence over British press in new three-part documentary seriesDecember 7, 2018Fiona Bruce confirmed as new BBC Question Time host and will still present evening news bulletins It followed a Sunday Mirror investigation, published as an exclusive on 11 March, that revealed child grooming on “unprecedented levels” in the West Midlands town.The paper said as many as 1,000 children in Telford could have suffered at the hands of grooming gangs and claimed local authorities had failed to stamp out the abuse which lasted for 40 years.It said that “despite similar high-profile cases in Rochdale and Rotherham, authorities in Telford ­repeatedly failed to stamp out a network of abusers”. Sharing the copy in full with Mason on 14 March (see images below),… Read full this story

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