Leeds City Council has been criticised for its failure to escalate a serious safeguarding case which resulted in a young girl being abused by her paedophile guardian.
‘Ruby’ (not her real name) was placed in the care of a convicted sex offender, who went on to sexually abuse her over a number of years, despite the authorities knowing his past, a shocking report released in January revealed.
The local authority initially decided the case did not meet a “serious harm” threshold, which requires them to notify a national safeguarding panel of such incidents.
