Don Worthington

Don Worthington was the Social Worker who interviewed Len and Rita Fairclough as prospective foster parents in 1981. In 1982, he asked Rita to take in sixteen-year-old Sharon Gaskell for a few days. The Faircloughs eventually fostered Sharon, and Don was called back in on occasions to sort out problems with the wayward teen.

In 1986, after police broke the news to one of Rita's paper girls, Jenny Bradley, that her mother had been killed, Don was called in to get Jenny a placement in a children's home. Rita went on to foster Jenny, and after it was established that Jenny's father, Alan Bradley, had been traced in Leeds, he asked Rita to act as mediator between the Bradleys when Alan arrived in Weatherfield.