Rotherham Council’s children’s services have “transformed” since the local authority was rocked by a child sexual exploitation scandal, according to Ofsted. An inspection in 2014 identified “widespread and serious failures”
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A woman who was abused and raped as a child is not capable of caring for her toddler daughter, a family court judge has ruled. Judge Jessica Pemberton said the
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Rochdale Council’s chief executive has apologised for the authority’s “unforgivable” response to concerns about sexual abuse at a residential school for boys linked to the late politician Cyril Smith. Smith
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A survivor of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham has described her shock at being turned down for full compensation for what she suffered because authorities deemed she had consented to
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A new series of reports into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal have been branded a “completely wasted opportunity” by the town’s MP Sarah Champion after they concluded individual senior
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Six investigations were commissioned by Rotherham Council, in 2014 and 2015, following the findings of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham (Jay Report), and the “Report of
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Sarah Champion has resigned as shadow women and equalities secretary and apologised for her “extremely poor choice of words” in a newspaper article about child abuse. The Labour MP warned
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Cases of Asian grooming gangs targeting white girls were not previously examined as “rigorously as they might have been”, a former Crown Prosecution Service chief has admitted. Lord Macdonald of
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Rotherham’s three Labour MPs have each won £54,000 damages from a Ukip politician over remarks she made about the town’s child abuse scandal. Sir Kevin Barron (pictured), MP for Rother
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A woman who was sexually exploited by a number of men in Rotherham from the age of 11 and made pregnant when she was 12 has told a court: “I
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