Jayne Senior
Jayne Senior, MBE, is a British youth worker and manager of the Swinton Lock Activity Centre near Mexborough in South Yorkshire, England.[1]
Senior is a former manager of Risky Business in Rotherham, a youth project set up in 1997 by Rotherham Council to work with girls and young women at risk of sexual exploitation.[2]
Working for over a decade to expose the issue of child sexual exploitation within Rotherham, Senior's efforts included acting as a whistleblower for a series of articles in The Times about the council's apparent attempts to cover up the abuse. The articles triggered a public inquiry by Alexis Jay, an inspection of the council by Louise Casey, the subsequent replacement of the councillors by government-appointed commissioners, and several criminal inquiries.[3]
Senior was rewarded with an MBE in the 2016 Birthday Honours.[4][5][6][7] She is the author of Broken and Betrayed: The true story of the Rotherham abuse scandal by the woman who fought to expose it (2016).
References[]
- ^ Chris Burn (10 June 2016). "Rotherham abuse whistleblower Jayne Senior awarded MBE" Archived 2017-08-27 at the Wayback Machine, The Star (Rotherham).
- ^ "Rotherham abuse scandal: Key dates". BBC News. 2 September 2014.
- ^ Margaret Coker; Alexis Flynn (22 May 2015). "One Woman's Crusade for U.K. Town's Young Rape Victims". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ^ "Charity worker who fought to expose Rotherham child abuse to work for victims". The Yorkshire Post. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ^ Low, Valentine; Sanderson, David (11 June 2016). "Youth worker who exposed Rotherham abuse gets MBE". The Times. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ Unsworth, Mike (10 June 2016). "MBE for youth worker they said was lying when she exposed Rotherham grooming scandal". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "Rotherham whistleblower Jayne Senior appointed MBE". BBC News Online. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
Further reading[]
- BBC News “Rotherham abuse whistleblower Jayne Senior investigated”
- Andrew Norfolk (24 September 2012). "Police files reveal vast child protection scandal". The Times.
- Norfolk, Andrew (28 August 2014). "Rotherham child sex abuse: How the truth finally came out", The Times.
- Senior, Jayne (2016). Broken and Betrayed: The true story of the Rotherham abuse scandal by the woman who fought to expose it. London: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781509801619.
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- Living people
- People from Rotherham
- Members of the Order of the British Empire