Haringey Social Work

Published On: 8th October 2025

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) reported 1,100 unread emails in Haringey Council’s social work inbox “including 500 police reports”.

Lucia das Neves, the council’s health, social care and wellbeing Cabinet Member said: “We recognise the seriousness of the findings and fully accept that mistakes were made, for which we apologise.”

The death of Baby P in 2007 saw the council heavily criticised over safeguarding failures.

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