Jayne Senior is a British youth worker and manager of the Swinton Lock Activity Centre nearMexborough inSouth Yorkshire, England.[1]
Senior is a former manager of Risky Business inRotherham, a youth project set up in 1997 byRotherham Council to work with girls and young women at risk of sexual exploitation.[2]
Working for over a decade to exposethe issue of child sexual exploitation within Rotherham, Senior's efforts included acting as awhistleblower for a series of articles inThe Times about the council's apparent attempts to cover up the abuse. The articles triggered a public inquiry byAlexis Jay, an inspection of the council byLouise Casey, the subsequent replacement of the councillors by government-appointed commissioners, and several criminal inquiries.[3]
Senior was awarded anMBE in the2016 Birthday Honours.[4][5][6][7] She is the author ofBroken and Betrayed: The true story of the Rotherham abuse scandal by the woman who fought to expose it (2016).
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