Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal

Andrew Norfolk's reporting for The Times, from January 2011 Norfolk investigated the grooming and sexual exploitation of children for years, and within days of one of his Rotherham stories the council ordered an independent inquiry. When Alexis Jay reported in 2014, she found that at least 1,400 children had been abused in the town and that council and police leadership had failed them between 1997 and 2009. The head of the council resigned. Read it for how sustained reporting on one town turned scattered warnings into a record the local authority could no longer dispute.