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Baby Peter council 'still failing'

Jul 3 2009

The council criticised over the Baby Peter tragedy is still failing to protect all vulnerable children adequately, a report has said.

Haringey Council in north London has made only "limited" progress in tackling areas of weakness identified in a review in November, official inspectors concluded.

Social workers' caseloads remain too high and their decisions in individual child protection cases continue to be "inconsistent and insufficiently robust", the report found.

Baby Peter was 17-months-old and on the at-risk register when he died at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger in August 2007.

He had suffered 50 injuries despite receiving 60 visits from social workers, doctors and police over the final eight months of his life.

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