handled child abuse allegations in Rotherham, CYP Now assesses what impact the case will have for children's services nationally and asks what lessons can be learned.
NATIONAL PICTURE
The sheer magnitude of suspected abuse over a 16-year period in Rotherham shocked the nation.
Professor Alexis Jay's report estimated that at least 1,400 children were subjected to sexual exploitation in the town between 1997 and 2013, with the overwhelming majority not receiving the help they required.
But were failures on this scale isolated to just one authority or have other councils been guilty of similar shortcomings?
The only national estimate of the scale of the problem came in 2012 when an inquiry by the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England, using data from police, councils, charities, central government, health services and interviews with children and young people, identified 2,400 child sexual exploitation (CSE) victims nationally between August 2010 and October 2011.
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