Disabled asylum-seekers and refugees do not receive enough support from disability organisations, which are often unaware of their rights and entitlements, according to a new report*.

The leader of Haringey Council issued a “formal apology” last night and acknowledged that the death of Baby P had highlighted the failure “by all the agencies involved”.

Severely handicapped adults are being denied social services care following a dispute between Birmingham City Council and the NHS over who should foot the bill for looking after some of the most vulnerable people in society.

Four senior social workers responsible for child protection are at the centre of a computer porn investigation.

Social services in Haringey, north London, were split over how to protect Baby P, who died following months of abuse, the BBC’s Panorama has learned.

A “SCARED and frightened” baby boy was subjected to a nightmare of cruel abuse at the hands of this violent York thug.

A FAIR Oak woman who founded a national charity for parents has died, aged 60. Lorraine Tate – who set up Hampshire-based Organisation for Parents under Stress (OPUS), which later became nationwide charity Parentline – lost her three-year cancer battle in October.

Earlier this year, the Daily Mail ran a feature headed: “Social workers took our children away … because of an incorrect hospital diagnosis”. The story concerned a young professional couple from Stockport, near Manchester, who took their six-month-old son to hospital after a fall. A paediatrician found a skull fracture. Social services moved quickly, taking the boy and his sister into care. Only four months later did a court clear the parents of abuse.

A “whistleblowing” policy should be developed within the youth justice system in Jersey, a prison campaign group has found.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE’S newest school has no buildings, just 13 hugely experienced teachers – many of them former heads – and 437 pupils who already attend other schools. The pupils are selected not on the basis of their ability, their faith or their parents’ wealth, but on the basis of the youngsters’ misfortune.