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TY - JOUR
T1 - The 'troubled' case of Rotherham
AU - Crossley, Stephen
AU - Leigh, Jadwiga
N1 - 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 Crossley, Stephen; Leigh, Jadwiga The 'troubled' case of Rotherham Critical and Radical Social Work, Volume 5, Number 1, March 2017, pp. 23-40 is available online at: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/crsw/2017/00000005/00000001/art00003
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - In March 2015, David Cameron announced that social workers may face up to five years' imprisonment if they 'wilfully neglect' child abuse. This announcement was made following the release of an independent inquiry report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. The author of this report was Louise Casey, Director General of the Troubled Families programme. Casey's findings not only raised a number of concerns about the way in which child sexual exploitation was handled by Rotherham, but also led to the potential criminalisation of social workers. In this article, we use a critical discourse analysis approach and Lukes's three-dimensional power framework to examine the inspection report. Our findings suggest that although approaches towards child sexual exploitation do need to improve, Casey's report may in fact prevent us from understanding what actually did happen in Rotherham, why it happened and what is required to minimise the chances of it happening again.
AB - In March 2015, David Cameron announced that social workers may face up to five years' imprisonment if they 'wilfully neglect' child abuse. This announcement was made following the release of an independent inquiry report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. The author of this report was Louise Casey, Director General of the Troubled Families programme. Casey's findings not only raised a number of concerns about the way in which child sexual exploitation was handled by Rotherham, but also led to the potential criminalisation of social workers. In this article, we use a critical discourse analysis approach and Lukes's three-dimensional power framework to examine the inspection report. Our findings suggest that although approaches towards child sexual exploitation do need to improve, Casey's report may in fact prevent us from understanding what actually did happen in Rotherham, why it happened and what is required to minimise the chances of it happening again.
KW - CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
KW - DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
KW - POWER
KW - SOCIAL WORK
KW - TROUBLED FAMILIES
U2 - 10.1332/204986016X14798319535531
DO - 10.1332/204986016X14798319535531
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 23
EP - 40
JO - Critical and Radical Social Work
JF - Critical and Radical Social Work
SN - 2049-8608
IS - 1
ER -