'Institutional political correctness' probe ordered by Theresa May into Rotherham child abuse scandal Mrs May said that "a number" of police investigations were now underway, encompassing the allegations of hundreds of the victims. Fourteen cases have been reported since the Jay report last week.
The Government is set to launch a probe into "institutionalised political correctness" in the wake of the Rotherham child abuse scandal, Theresa May has said.
The Home Secretary was responding to a report last week by Professor Alexis Jay which found that at least 1,400 children had been victims of sex abuse in Rotherham over a period of more than a decade.
The announcement came as local police said that 12 new victims had come forward in the five days since the publication of the Jay report.