The coverage of the child abuse scandal that has engulfed the Yorkshire town since the publication of the independent inquiry report last month has evolved from the initial shock of the scale of child sexual exploitation (CSE) to focusing on apportioning blame to individuals and agencies for the failings it exposed.
The leader and chief executive of the council have resigned and announced an intention to resign respectively. But the area’s police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright and the council’s director of children’s services (DCS) Joyce Thacker have, at the time of writing, maintained their intention to stay on, despite vociferous calls from the local community and a host of politicians to step aside.
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