Meanwhile, Norfolk County Council has been served with an £80,000 penalty for disclosing details of a child protection case to the next-door neighbour of the family concerned.
The Croydon Council incident, which happened in April 2011, occurred when an unlocked bag belonging to a social worker was stolen from a London pub.
The social worker was taking papers home to use at a meeting the following day, including information about the sexual abuse of a child and six other people connected to a court hearing. The bag and its contents have never been recovered.
The Norfolk County Council security breach, which also happened in April 2011, came about when a social worker inadvertently wrote the wrong address on a report and hand delivered it to the intended recipient’s next-door neighbour.
The report contained confidential and highly sensitive personal data about a child’s emotional and physical wellbeing, together with other personal information and allegations against the parent.
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