The Social Work Inspection Agency published its response to thecollapsed child abuse case in the Western Isles last week. Nine peoplewere arrested following a series of dawn raids in 2003 but the chargeswere dropped last year.
The report concluded that social work practitioners and managers shouldhave acted sooner to protect the children. It also said healthprofessionals failed to respond appropriately to the potential childprotection issues raised by the children's health problems anddistress.
It added: "It is hard to make sense of how so much professional energycould be devoted to sharing information, to such little effect, for thesafety and welfare of the children in family A."
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