South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright has resigned over the Rotherham child abuse scandal. The BBC reports that Wright’s decision to quit follows repeated calls to step down in the wake of a report by professor Alexis Jay which found at least 1,400 children were abused in the town from 1997 to 2013. Wright was lead member for children's services at the authority between 2005 and 2010.
A campaign to employ more social workers in Coventry has attracted nearly 50 applications. The Coventry Telegraph reports that the council has received a “better than expected” response to the controversial Do It For Daniel campaign. The authority wants to recruit 50 social workers as part of efforts to ensure tragic cases, like that of Daniel Pelka, do not happen again.
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