The reason btw that it matters whether the councils hold an inquiry, like Jess Philips has told them to do, or the government holds a statutory inquiry, like the councils want, is that a government inquiry has legal powers to compel production of documents and other evidence, including powers to compel individuals to give evidence to the inquiry. The council's powers of inquiry are limited to looking through their own files and the police might, might, help them if they feel like it. The council can't even see anonymised medical evidence.
It's not just about hand washing. It's about the ability of any inquiry to accurately form a view of what happened, why it happened, and most crucially what is being done to prevent it continuing to happen. (Spoiler: extremely fucking little.) The "what happened" has mostly been settled by the Jay inquiry: Alexis Jay was very thorough and made if anything a conservative estimate of the scale of the disaster. The Casey report was issued in 2015 as a follow up of sorts to the Jay report to outline why the Rotherham response was so fucking terrible. The council was put under special measures for a couple of years but this was as much for the look of it as anything. The idea that the structural and cultural problems identified by Louise Casey were exclusive to Rotherham or meaningfully changed by special measures nearly a decade ago is risible.
The Casey report is here for happy reading:
https://assets.publishing.service.g...966_Report_of_Inspection_of_Rotherham_WEB.pdf
An inquiry that isn't a government inquiry, isn't statutory or judicial, simply does not have the power to uncover and reflect in full on these events and what needs to be done to stop this shit happening. Talking about "moving on" etc is just turning yet another blind eye to the problem of CSE.