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Rotherham: the council leaders who presided over child abuse scandal
The Telegraph ^ | August 27, 2014 | Gordon Rayner, Martin Evans and John Bingham

Posted on 08/29/2014 9:20:13 AM PDT by beaversmom

The woman who presided over the last five years of failure as the boss of children’s services at Rotherham Council is the same executive who removed three children from their foster parents because they were Ukip voters.

Joyce Thacker, the £130,000-a-year Strategic Director of Children’s Services at the scandal-hit council, is among the senior managers who are now under pressure to resign following the “excoriating” report into child sexual exploitation in the town.

Mrs Thacker, who joined the Council as deputy head of children’s services in 2006, is already a controversial figure following her decision two years ago to remove three ethnic minority children from their foster parents because of their affiliation to Ukip.

After The Telegraph drew attention to the foster parents’ plight, Mrs Thacker refused to back down, saying the children’s “cultural and ethnic needs” did not fit in with the parents’ “strong views”. She said their support for Ukip meant they opposed “multiculturalism”.

Although she is not named as being culpable for the failure to protect 1,400 abused children in the report, as the head of children’s services since 2008 Mrs Thacker is among those whose positions now appear to be under threat.

The report by Professor Alexis Jay said child sexual exploitation had carried on largely unchecked between 1997 and 2013, the period she was asked to examine, but “continues to this day”.

Nick Gibb, the Education Minister, said on Wednesday that those who made policy decisions that contributed to the scandal “should be held to account”.

Mrs Thacker, who joined the Council as deputy head of children’s services in 2006, is already a controversial figure following her decision two years ago to remove three ethnic minority children from their foster parents because of their affiliation to Ukip.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: childabuse; pakis; rotherham

1 posted on 08/29/2014 9:20:13 AM PDT by beaversmom
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2 posted on 08/29/2014 9:26:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: beaversmom

ISLAM.

Mohammed was a child rapist, genocidal murderer, ethnic cleanser, and the model for all future muslims.


3 posted on 08/29/2014 9:30:50 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FReerepublic: Bring a FRiend!)
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- Joyce Thacker Photo: BBC -

4 posted on 08/29/2014 9:33:28 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: All

Related:

Rotherham child abusers ‘brazen’, says care home worker (Islam at work)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3198457/posts


5 posted on 08/29/2014 9:33:33 AM PDT by beaversmom
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Those responsible need to be hanged.


6 posted on 08/29/2014 9:50:10 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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To: beaversmom

130000 pounds = $216000 at today’s exchange rates


7 posted on 08/29/2014 10:11:28 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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takes kids from conservatives, gives them to Muslim rapists!


8 posted on 08/29/2014 10:13:07 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Know i’ve already posted it, but :

“South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner was clinging to
his job tonight as political pressure grows for him to step down in the wake
of the Rotherham child sex exploitation scandal.

Commissioner Shaun Wright was responsible for children’s services at
Rotherham Council when the authorities turned a blind eye to child sex
abuse by Asian gangs.

Reports tonight suggest the Labour Party will suspend Mr Wright from the
party if he has not resigned by Thursday morning.””

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/south-yorkshire-police-and-crime-commissioner-shaun-wright-clings-to-job-as-pressure-mounts-1-6807015


9 posted on 08/29/2014 10:26:19 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: beaversmom

Bump


10 posted on 08/29/2014 10:52:23 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: TexasCajun

Trim her hair with a bowl on top...

and you have another Lois Lerner...

or perhaps “Moe”..no disrespect to Howard ment.

Joyce Thacker, Lois Lerner...Drones that are

hatched out of the same species...i.e. “useful idiots”...

“fellow travelers”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot


11 posted on 08/29/2014 11:10:11 AM PDT by DavidLSpud ("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
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Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham (1997 – 2013)
12 posted on 08/29/2014 12:09:11 PM PDT by beaversmom
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