Twenty-nine children seeking asylum in Britain have gone missing from the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal in the past three years, it emerged today.

Ten NHS trusts, four mental health trusts and an ambulance trust are not meeting the tough new standards of care that have been set by the Care Quality Commission, it was revealed as the CQC announced plans to give 214 more NHS trusts a licence to operate.

The government has published its long-awaited early intervention report and pledged to bring in ring-fenced funding to ensure children’s trusts do more to support vulnerable children at an early age.

The whistleblower who warned that Haringey social services were failing to protect children just six months before the death of Baby P is to stand for election there as a Liberal Democrat councillor.