Last Wednesday, the London council announced that Colin Green had been appointed to lead its LSCB. But a council statement published on Friday said he had “decided to withdraw from the post with immediate effect”.
Green, who left Coventry City council at the end of August, came under fire from the area's local MP over the failure of services to intervene to prevent the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka in March 2012.
Daniel's mother, Magdelena Luczak, 27, and her boyfriend, Mariusz Krezolek, 34, were sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison after being found guilty of his murder in July.
After their convictions, MP Geoffrey Robinson called for Green, who had already announced his retirement, to be sacked but he was allowed to remain in the post until his expected leaving date.
When Green’s role at Tower Hamlets was announced, Robinson said he was “stunned” and that he planned to raise the issue with children’s minister Edward Timpson.
A serious case review (SCR) into Daniel’s death by Coventry Local Safeguarding Children Board, published last Tuesday, found that the four-year-old was effectively “invisible” to professionals as a result of language barriers.
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