UNDER-fire council chiefs have admitted NINETEEN children have died of abuse or neglect in Birmingham in the past five years – with 16 known to social workers.Read
The author of a damning report into “systematic failure” by Birmingham children’s social services today challenges city council leaders to provide new investment to turn the troubled department around.Read
Journalists sitting through yesterday’s Birmingham City Council briefing on the findings of an inquiry into children’s services could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled across a re-worked screening of the hit movie Groundhog Day.Read
Veteran Conservative councillor Len Clark was an inspired choice to lead a city council scrutiny inquiry into the reasons behind the continuing failure of Birmingham children’s social services.Read
This is the report of the key findings from the Birmingham City Council report into its social services department. A link to the full report can be found at the bottom of this articleRead
