10 August (Part 2) - Lessons not yet learnt?
Bexley council’s failure to respond to the alarm signals sent out by Health Visitors and school teachers were followed by
the death of a three year old boy.
Are things better now? Not if you can believe the council’s own statistics.
Percentage of planned audits carried out - under 20%. The percentage of those deemed good. Less than half.
Social Worker vacancies. More or less half! Sickness rate. Getting on for 10%.
Another accident waiting to happen?
