Public and prosecuting authorities should work on the presumption that what young people say “is true and not false” when investigating child sexual exploitation allegations, a justice minister has said.
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Communities secretary Eric Pickles has named the five commissioners who will take over the running of crisis-hit Rotherham and also promised £250,000 to help set up an outreach project to
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Government cuts to Rotherham police and council are “compounding the horror” of the child sexual exploitation scandal when what is needed is a major new centre to support victims, the
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A former senior official at children’s care watchdog Ofsted has apologised for the organisation’s failure to uncover widespread sexual exploitation in Rotherham. John Goldup, who joined Ofsted as director of
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A specialist child abuse lawyer has said two victims of the Rotherham scandal had complained to him about a police officer who has since been killed in a car crash.
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A criminal investigation is to be started after a damning new report into Rotherham’s child sexual exploitation prompted the replacement of its entire political leadership with Government commissioners. Communities secretary
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The number of victims in the Rotherham sex exploitation scandal may be even more than the 1,400 children identified in a damning report, according to the town’s MP and a
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Experts involved in the Government’s troubled child sexual abuse inquiry will appear before MPs today while councils hold a summit looking at how to protect youngsters. The inquiry set up
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Opposition leader Ed Miliband has talked of his deep regret about the Rotherham child exploitation scandal and how “a Labour council didn’t do the right things and didn’t take the
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A police chief has revealed that another 62 police officers are being brought in to investigate the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings promised
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