A WEST Yorkshire Council has rowed back on a landmark safeguarding pledge it made after a child abuse scandal, after officers concluded it was legally impossible to guarantee.
Elected councilllors unanimously agreed to a white paper in March which committed Leeds City Council to ensuring “no child in Leeds is placed into the care of a convicted child sex offender again.”
It followed the appalling findings of an independent report which detailed how a young girl, anonymously known as ‘Ruby’, was sexually abused over several years by her legal guardian. He’d been given custody of her despite the authorities knowing he was a convicted paedophile, after an outdated assessment suggested he posed no risk to her.