Children's secretary Ed Balls said the report, commissioned last month to investigate the death of the child known as Baby P, was "a damning verdict on the current management of safeguarding in Haringey." He called the findings "devastating" and said inspectors had uncovered "a catalogue of failings" which needed "urgent and sustained attention". These included: a failure to talk directly to children at risk; agencies working in isolation; a failure to identify children and young...