Rotherham's Shame!

Apology over children taken from Ukip foster pair 'too little, too late’.

The council that told a couple it was removing their foster children because they were members of the UK Independence Party has been accused of attempting to cover up its “ridiculous” mistake after it issued a partial apology.

Rotherham borough council sought to draw a line under the controversy yesterday by issuing a statement in which it admitted giving misleading media interviews but said it was in the children’s “best interests” to remove them.

Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip, said the authority’s apology for its handling of the case “didn’t go far enough”.
“I’m afraid this is a bully-boy council trying to cover up for a ridiculous error and, as ever, it is ordinary decent people who are made to pay the price,” he said.
The council was widely criticised from all sides of the political spectrum after its social workers removed three siblings of ethnic minority descent from the experienced foster parents last November, saying that the parents’ membership of Ukip meant they supported “racist” immigration policies.

In interviews at the time, Joyce Thacker, the council’s director of children’s services, said the quality of the couple’s care was “not an issue”. Telegraph.
Little wonder Ukip won a safe Labour, Rotherham seat on S. Yorks Council last week, is there?