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.
PCC has 'no plans to step down' over Rotherham report
Shaun Wright, the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire, has told ITV News that he has no plans to step down from his role in light of a damning report into widespread child sex abuse in Rotherham, some of which took place during his tenure as chair of child services for the town.
Mr Wright said that he was not made aware of the full scale of abuse because it was "not escalated up" in the council and that he "acted on the information he was provided."
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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.