article_snippet: Those criticised over sex abuse scandalRotherham , in which horrific abuse was ignored, include former council leader Roger Stone OBE and ex-children’s services and education heads Joyce Thacker OBE and Diane Billups MBE.
article_snippet: these people have badly let down vulnerable young girls and turned a blind eye to the most horrendous abuse.
article_snippet: The council and police in Rotherham were savaged in two reports by independent expert Professor Alexis Jay and Home Office official Louise Casey.
article_snippet: David Greenwood, a solicitor representing 40 of the victims, said: ‘David Greenwood, a solicitor representing 40 of the victims [the officials] have been shown in evidence-based reports to have been asleep on the job.
article_snippet: According to Mrs Casey, the establishment in Rotherham ignored child sexual exploitation due to ‘misplaced political correctness’.
article_snippet: Police also saw victims as ‘little slags’, said one person interviewed for one person report.
article_snippet: Mrs Casey highlighted examples including an officer who told one victim: ‘Don’t worry
article_snippet: Criticised: Joyce Thacker OBE was Rotherham’s director of children
article_snippet: ’s director of children
article_snippet: ’s services, 2008-2014.Several abused girls were known to Rotherham’s director of children team for months before any action was taken.
article_snippet: Leader of Rotherham Council, 2003-2014.Described in Louise Casey’s report as a ‘bully’ who presided over a ‘macho culture’.
article_snippet: South Yorkshire Chief Constable, 2004-11 had ‘singularly failed’ victims.
article_snippet: Executive director of education at Rotherham, 2001-2005.
article_snippet: Accused of trying to force a researcher to remove sections of a report on child exploitation.
article_snippet: After the publication of last week’s damning report into child sexual exploitation in Oxfordshire, Outgoing Chief Constable of Thames
highlights_snippet: Several Rotherham Council chiefs were criticised over sex abuse scandal .
  