Social worker ‘failed to safeguard victims of Rochdale sex gang’

  A social worker failed to safeguard young victims of the Rochdale sex gang and closed their cases prematurely, a tribunal has heard. Deborah MacQueen allegedly failed to adequately safeguard up to 11 vulnerable children who were groomed by the nine sex offenders while working for Rochdale Borough Council. She faces a raft of allegations surrounding the 11 children from January 2005 to September 2011, which claims she failed to adequately protect children who were in ‘grave danger’. Nine men…