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.

Jersey’s police chief was suspended today after confirmation that suspicious bone fragments found at Haut de la Garenne were up to 500 years old, and that there was no evidence to back up claims of murder at a former children’s home dubbed the island’s “house of horrors”.

The UK’s leading body for vocational and managerial skills has announced a new qualification in understanding HIV and AIDS. It has been created in conjunction with sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust.

EMPTY beds in Derby care homes are wasting nearly a million pounds a year of tax-payers’ money, according to a report. In the city’s eight council-run homes, 83% of beds are occupied – lower than the 95% expected of such homes.

A social worker from King’s Lynn who sexually abused a 12-year-old girl had previously worked with children, it has been revealed. Kevin Mence, 42, admitted he was a paedophile after being arrested by police.

Investigations were under way last night as the deaths of two young boys intensifed the scrutiny on child protection in Britain. Greater Manchester Police is facing serious questions over its handling of the welfare of a troubled family which ended with a baby and toddler being stabbed to death, allegedly by their mother.

The scandal of Baby P has placed the role of the individuals assigned to protect him in the spotlight. Unlike previous child abuse scandals in which the victims have slipped through the net, unnoticed until it was too late, Baby P was recognised as being at risk of child abuse and placed on the child protection register eight months before he died.

The horrific case of Baby P – who suffered months of abuse before his murder – has led to fierce criticism of local social services in Haringey, north London.