Recent investigations on how social services and police ‘missed opportunities’ to stop the sexual exploitation of teenage girls in Rochdale and Rotherham – not to mention the Jimmy Savile scandal – has ensured child abuse stays firmly in the headlines. There has been a flurry of concern, as professionals produce endless reports on ‘system failures’. It now seems that children who report being sexually exploited should be believed after all, not just dismissed as troublemakers. Suddenly, profe...
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