SOCIAL SERVICES BOSSES UNDER FIRE OVER 'APPALLING' HANDLING OF DISABLED BOY'S CASE

Social services bosses at a London council have come under fire from a family court judge over their handling of a case involving a teenage boy with complex special needs.

Judge Kate Purkiss has criticised managers at Barking and Dagenham Council (pictured) for their failure to monitor the care the teenager was given at a specialist unit and she said his parents were treated in an "appalling way" by some professionals.

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