SOCIAL workers in Carmarthenshire have been criticised for an "abject failure" to check the welfare of a four-year-old girl amid fears of drug-taking and domestic violence, a damning new report claims. Concerns from the girl's worried father were continually ignored by Carmarthenshire Council's social services department, who took months before visiting girl at home - only doing so after a police tip-off. The authority has been ordered to pay the father £1,000 in compensation and...
Reported by South Wales Evening Post 22 hours ago.
SOCIAL workers in Carmarthenshire have been criticised for an "abject failure" to check the welfare of a four-year-old girl amid fears of drug-taking and domestic violence, a damning new report claims. Concerns from the girl's worried father were continually ignored by Carmarthenshire Council's social services department, who took months before visiting girl at home - only doing so after a police tip-off. The authority has been ordered to pay the father £1,000 in compensation and...
Reported by South Wales Evening Post 22 hours ago.