In Professor Jay’s report into the exploitation that occurred across decades in Rotherham we saw again and again that people knew what was happening.
Children were telling us what was happening. But they were no safer for it. Why? Why when, as the years rolled by in Rotherham, across the country our understanding of child sexual exploitation (CSE) was broadening and deepening?
Why when, as report after report into CSE was published (we now have over 400 individual recommendations for professionals, as laid out by the National Working Group’s recent summary publication) were our children not safer?
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