This is a repository copy of The ‘troubled’ case of Rotherham. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/106195/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Crossley, S. and Leigh, J.T. (2017) The ‘troubled’ case of Rotherham. Critical and Radical Social Work, 5 (1). pp. 23-40. ISSN 2049-8608 https://doi.org/10.1332/204986016X14798319535531 This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Critical and Radical Social Work . The definitive publisher-authenticated version Critical and Radical Social Work, Volume 5, Number 1, March 2017, pp. 23-40 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/204986016X14798319535531 Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ T case of Rotherham We have all been appalled at the abuse suffered by so many young girls in Rotherham. Children were ignored, sometimes even blamed, and issues were swept under the carpet often because of a warped and misguided sense of political correctness.