Documents released by the courts have revealed that changes were made to an Ofsted report on the council at the centre of the Baby Peter case.

Martin Narey is not a man to shy away from controversy. The Whitehall mandarin turned charity chief has brought just as much blunt speaking to the issue of children in the care system as he did to prisons when he was head of that service in the 1990s.

She may have been sacked 16 months ago, but Sharon Shoesmith is not going to go without a fight. The former head of children’s services at Haringey Council is not only using the employment tribunal system to seek financial redress, but also the High Court to seek a judicial review on what she sees as the unfairness of her dismissal.

Sixteen people were abused or neglected in Cumbria’s old folks’ homes and day centres in the past year, The Cumberland News can reveal.

Police in the Baby P case knew one of his eventual killers was living in the family home but they failed to tell Haringey social workers, according to lawyers for the council’s sacked head of child protection.

SOCIAL workers repeatedly failed properly to assess or monitor a Yorkshire foster father who subjected three vulnerable young girls in his care to years of sexual abuse.

An incompetent social worker who falsely accused families of prostitution and shoplifting, made racist remarks about colleagues and service users and took sick pay from one employer while secretly working for another has been struck off.

MORE embarrassment follows for Haringey Council’s social services as a ‘dishonest’ social worker is struck off for failing to disclose criminal convictions and making false expenses claims.

£26m for Yorkshire & Humber, is going to councils so they can continue to improve services from crucial skills and jobs programmes to arts facilities for young people and town centre regeneration, the Government announced today.

A nursery nurse accused of throwing infants to the floor and forcing them to eat their own vomit because she had lost interest in her job walked free from court today.