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The recent deaths of children at the hands of family members have revealed some children's social work departments are still failing children some nine years after the death of Baby P. In some regions the reaction of the Government has been to take social workers out of the hands of councils and put them into independent trusts.
So what's been going wrong - and will the radical solution coming out of Whitehall really work? Jenny Chryss investigates.
Producer: Rob Cave.
By BBC Radio 44.3
3232 ratings
The recent deaths of children at the hands of family members have revealed some children's social work departments are still failing children some nine years after the death of Baby P. In some regions the reaction of the Government has been to take social workers out of the hands of councils and put them into independent trusts.
So what's been going wrong - and will the radical solution coming out of Whitehall really work? Jenny Chryss investigates.
Producer: Rob Cave.

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