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.

A scheme in Central Lancashire which prepares youngsters for a career in social care has won a national award.

Government orders urgent review into child welfare within Haringey council, the local authority responsible for the care of Baby P

The leader of Britain’s 81,700 social workers called last night for an end to the excoriation of the profession in the media and parliament, after the disclosure of mistakes in the handling of the Baby P case in Haringey, north London.

WESTLANDS Residential Home faces uncertainty following the announcement of shake up proposals from the Northern Health and Social Care Trust.