AN EIGHTH serious case review has been launched in Doncaster after the death of a baby who was known to the council’s beleaguered children’s services department.

Social services chiefs in Northumberland are to strengthen their child protection workforce as part of nationwide efforts to avoid a repeat of the Baby Peter scandal in Haringey.

THE woman brought in to safeguard Island children was for ten years the boss of a social services department heavily criticised in a report issued just months after she left.

MORE frontline staff are to be recruited to care for children in Sheffield after an internal review found child social workers have too many cases to handle and many are inexperienced.

HEALTH and social care teams in Middlesbrough have been condemned for failing three children who were seriously neglected by their mother.

Television presenter Angela Rippon criticised the “bureaucratic nightmare” facing carers and called for more support at Norfolk conference yesterday.