Jayne Senior
Jayne Senior,MBE,is a British youth worker and manager of the Swinton Lock Activity Centre nearMexboroughinSouth Yorkshire,England.[1]
Senior is a former manager of Risky Business inRotherham,a youth project set up in 1997 byRotherham Councilto work with girls and young women at risk of sexual exploitation.[2]
Working for over a decade to exposethe issue of child sexual exploitation within Rotherham,Senior's efforts included acting as awhistleblowerfor a series of articles inThe Timesabout the council's apparent attempts to cover up the abuse. The articles triggered a public inquiry byAlexis Jay,an inspection of the council byLouise Casey,the subsequent replacement of the councillors by government-appointed commissioners, and several criminal inquiries.[3]
Senior was rewarded with anMBEin the2016 Birthday Honours.[4][5][6][7]She is the author ofBroken and Betrayed: The true story of the Rotherham abuse scandal by the woman who fought to expose it(2016).
References
[edit]- ^Chris Burn (10 June 2016)."Rotherham abuse whistleblower Jayne Senior awarded MBE"Archived2017-08-27 at theWayback Machine,The Star(Rotherham).
- ^"Rotherham abuse scandal: Key dates".BBC News. 2 September 2014.
- ^Margaret Coker; Alexis Flynn (22 May 2015)."One Woman's Crusade for U.K. Town's Young Rape Victims".The Wall Street Journal.Retrieved20 May2016.
- ^"Charity worker who fought to expose Rotherham child abuse to work for victims".The Yorkshire Post.14 October 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 26 June 2015.Retrieved20 May2016.
- ^Low, Valentine; Sanderson, David (11 June 2016)."Youth worker who exposed Rotherham abuse gets MBE".The Times.Retrieved11 June2016.
- ^Unsworth, Mike (10 June 2016)."MBE for youth worker they said was lying when she exposed Rotherham grooming scandal".Yorkshire Post.Retrieved11 June2016.
- ^"Rotherham whistleblower Jayne Senior appointed MBE".BBC News Online.10 June 2016.Retrieved11 June2016.
Further reading
[edit]- BBC News“Rotherham abuse whistleblower Jayne Senior investigated”
- Andrew Norfolk (24 September 2012)."Police files reveal vast child protection scandal".The Times.
- Norfolk, Andrew (28 August 2014)."Rotherham child sex abuse: How the truth finally came out",The Times.
- Senior, Jayne (2016).Broken and Betrayed: The true story of the Rotherham abuse scandal by the woman who fought to expose it.London: Pan Macmillan.ISBN9781509801619.
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