UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post
Rob Parsons
Monday 24 August 2015
It was a 153-page report that sent shockwaves through a South Yorkshire town and the nation at large, sparking a raft of senior resignations and months of turmoil in local child protection services at all levels.
And a year on from the bombshell Alexis Jay report which laid bare the scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, South Yorkshire’s police and crime commissioner says he is still at a loss to understand why police in the town turned away from hundreds of young victims.
Dr Alan Billings was elected last year as a direct result of last August’s Jay Report, after his predecessor Shaun Wright was forced to resign in its wake.
The retired Anglican priest and former deputy leader of Sheffield city council recalled how the scale of the offending in Rotherham revealed “seemed scarcely believable”.
He said everyone – public and police – first had to come to terms with the reality of what Professor Jay uncovered.
“We had to first of all accept that what Professor Jay had turned up was true, that this was the reality,” he said.
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