The Northern Agenda: North's latest grooming bombshell
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Here is today's newsletter: By ROB PARSONS - June 20 2022 Rotherham. Rochdale. Huddersfield. Keighley. Just some of the Northern towns where widespread grooming and sexual abuse of vulnerable children by gangs of men went on for years as local authorities failed to act.
Today Oldham can be added to the list as a long-awaited review into allegations of historic child sexual exploitation in the Greater Manchester borough found local children were exploited and let down by services which tried and failed to protect them.
Among its damning findings, the review found that Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed worked as a welfare officer in Oldham unchecked for three years despite being accused of serious child sexual abuse.
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