Shaun Wright steps down as PCC after Rotherham report pressure
Shaun Wright has stepped down as South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner after weeks of pressure over the Rotherham sexual abuse scandal, his office has announced.
Spending cuts in Rotherham 'affected child services'
The budget for children's social care was vastly overstretched in Rotherham, where 1,400 cases of child sexual exploitation was reported over a 16-year period, the author of the report said.
Professor Alexis Jay said that between 2000 and 2003, the budget had been overspent by nearly a million pounds. The report said:
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Children were 'raped and beaten' in Rotherham
Children as young as 11 were raped by large groups of men, a new inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham has found.
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True scale of Rotherham child sex abuse was 'downplayed'
A report into 16 years of child sexual abuse in Rotherham has concluded that the true scale of exploitation in the town will never be known.