MORE education and training is needed to spot early signs of abuse.
We must all work together to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.
We need more education and training…to look for the signs.”
Everyone in schools, should receive more training, from teachers to dinner ladies.
I was a youth worker with Rotherham’s Risky Business programme and I tried in vain to help child victims and passed on information to the authorities, hoping they would take action.
But all that happened was that they closed us down.
No-one believed the children until I revealed through the Times newspaper a pattern of exploitation that saw children and young people groomed, gang raped and tortured by groups of men in Rotherham.
The articles led to a public inquiry by Alexis Jay and a number of criminal investigations.
Rotherham was a quiet little town but became the most infamous town in the whole world.
But it is not alone when it comes to child sexual exploitation.
There are 73 live investigations going on now – in your town or in towns near to where you are.”
I was warned she could be imprisoned for disclosing information. I became a target for trolling. I was the subject of a criminal investigation (and subsequently cleared).
And I suffered emotional upset in my crusade to expose the truth.
Youth worker Jayne Senior spoke at at the University of Brighton’s Falmer campus to students
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