Social services director Joyce Thacker suggested parents should share the blame for not looking after their children when a gang of Asian men was jailed for sexually abusing girls in the town four years ago.She remains in her 115,000-a-year job.
Date: Aug 27, 2014
Category: World
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Michael Gove enters row over removal of Ukip foster parents' children
Joyce Thacker, strategic director of children and young people's services at the council, told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The fact of the matter is I have to look at the children's cultural and ethnic needs. The children have been in care proceedings before and the judge had previously crit
Date: Nov 24, 2012
Category: World
Source: Google
Foster family in UK loses kids due to political views
Speaking to the BBC, Joyce Thacker, strategic director of children and young people's services at the council, said she had to decide whether some foster placements were appropriate for particular children.
Date: Nov 24, 2012
Category: World
Source: Google
UKIP couple have foster children removed from care
Rotherham Borough Council's Strategic Director of Children and Young People's Services, Joyce Thacker, told the BBC that her decision was influenced by UKIP's immigration policy, which she said calls for the end of the "active promotion of multiculturalism".
Date: Nov 24, 2012
Category: World
Source: Google
Politics over parenting: UK foster family's children removed over 'racist' party ...
"Also the fact of the matter is I have to look at the children's cultural and ethnic needs, Joyce Thacker, the council's Director of Children and Young People's Services, said during a BBC radio interview on Saturday morning.