Jayne Senior is a British youth worker and manager of the Swinton Lock Activity Centre near

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, England. Senior is a former manager of Risky Business in

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, a youth project set up in 1997 by Rotherham Council to work with girls and young women at risk of sexual exploitation. Working for over a decade to expose the issue of child sexual exploitation within Rotherham, Senior's efforts included acting as a

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for a series of articles in ''The Times'' about the council's apparent attempts to cover up the abuse. The articles triggered a public inquiry by

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, an inspection of the council by

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, the subsequent replacement of the councillors by government-appointed commissioners, and several criminal inquiries. Senior was awarded an MBE in the

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. She is the author of ''Broken and Betrayed: The true story of the Rotherham abuse scandal by the woman who fought to expose it'' (2016).

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