The Yorkshire council confirmed Thacker’s departure in a short statement issued on Friday evening. It said: “Joyce Thacker, strategic director for children and young people’s services, is to leave Rotherham Borough Council by mutual agreement, with immediate effect. The council will be making no further statement at this stage.”
Last week, Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs committee, called on Thacker, who had been DCS at Rotherham since 2008 and was last week signed off on sick leave, to resign “as a matter of conscience to cleanse the council of the leadership”.
It followed the publication last month of an independent inquiry report that estimated at least 1,400 children had been sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. The report was highly critical of the handling of CSE by both Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police.
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