I watched grooming victims 'disappear', says social worker

A former Bradford social worker remembers girls routinely slipping into taxis after school in the 1980s–90s and raising concerns that went largely unheeded.
Many survivors—some now in their 50s—never received support; abuse crossed ethnic lines and shame kept many victims silent.
Baroness Longfield’s inquiry aims to go beyond prosecutions to ask why warnings were ignored and to put survivors’ voices at the centre.