Senior officers at Rotherham MBC will be asked to account for the authority’s child sexual exploitation failures when they are hauled in front of MPs.
Council chief executive Martin Kimber and strategic director of children and young people’s services Joyce Thacker will face the communities and local government committee after the publication of the Jay report into sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham.
A spokesman for the committee said the report had revealed an ‘appalling picture’ and MPs wanted to call senior officers to ‘account for the management failures that allowed this abuse to go unchallenged for years’.
Chair of the committee, Clive Betts, said: ‘The report by Professor Alexis Jay revealed an appalling failure by council staff at all levels.
‘While, on the political side of the council, the leader has resigned, senior managers have shown no indication yet of taking any responsibility.
‘We want to find out why.’
