AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
KATHRYN POWLEY HERALD SUN DECEMBER 20, 2014
AN education official who worked at a UK council slammed for not protecting children from a plague of sexual exploitation has been sidelined from her Victorian job.
Dr Sonia Sharp has been serving as Victoria’s deputy secretary of early childhood and school education but has been moved to the Department of Health and Human Services while her recruitment is reviewed.
Education Minister James Merlino has previously said Dr Sharp should never have been hired – but now he is in government, he has stopped short of firing her.
From 2005-08 Dr Sharp was director of children’s services at Rotherham Borough Council, where an estimated 1400 children – some as young as 11 – were sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013.
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