The child protection services audit was commissioned by Edinburgh Council in the wake of the death of 11-week-old Caleb Ness in 2001. Researchers looked at a sample of cases from the child protection register, and while no children were found to be at immediate risk, "acute" shortages of staff, a lack of resources including access to email, and gaps in both "willingness and commitment" to share information, were all identified.
The report concludes that the level of support that deprived and abused children need "was not able to be provided" and found low levels of involvement in child protection cases from school nurses, GPs and the police.
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