Social Services chiefs today insisted that they did act on a tip-off about a Carlisle toddler who was found by police living in a squalid drugs den.

The sacked head of children’s services at the centre of the Baby P case is taking Haringey Council to employment tribunal.
 

A nurse has been dismissed from a Derby care home following the death of a resident earlier this year.

Children are being put at risk because social workers are overloaded by impossible targets and red tape, a report commissioned following the death of Baby P is expected to report this week.

Dozens of social services departments across the country have been covering up serious failures, an independent review into the death of Baby P will warn.

Say the words “social worker” and a harassed-looking woman carrying a bouquet of dog-eared files and a handbag full of tissues and Nurofen comes to mind.

Cumbria’s top judge has demanded answers from social services after a little girl was found living in a squalid drug den.