A report written in January 2005 by the local authority's then executive director of education and culture Mark Eales said that the plan to merge the council's children's services into a larger department would jeopardise the safety of vulnerable children.
But the council's managing director Paul Hart, who was initially appointed as interim managing director of the local authority in May 2007, said that he had not been informed about the existence of the report.
Six children who had come into contact with Doncaster social services died after Eales' report was completed.
The council will also investigate the circumstances surrounding a second report produced in March 2007 by the council's former specialist change director Bron Sanders.
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