Cardiff Social Services Department Criticised Over Treatment Of Two Children
A COUNCIL has been criticised after two young children were removed from the Child Protection Register without a proper review.
Six years ago a joint review by the Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate found significant failings in the running of Cardiff County Council’s social services department, which had exposed children to “unacceptable risk”. The department was put into “special measures”, but those have since been lifted.
Now the Public Services Ombudsman has upheld a complaint from the grandmother of a four- year-old girl who, together with her 12-year-old half-sister, was removed from the Child Protection Register. The children’s mother has mental health problems.
The Ombudsman’s report, in which all identities are kept anonymous, says the council argued that the children were being adequately cared for and a review would be intrusive and upsetting.
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