On the same day that Baby P’s Mother and Stepfather received their sentences, Haringey’s council announced an overhaul of its children social services with an aim to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating by 2012.

The three year program will guarantee qualified social workers more balanced workloads and better support. New and more user friendly IT systems will be implemented and an increase in better qualified staff will be permanently hired.

With a £4.2m budget already approved for this year, the council will launch a children’s trust campaign next month to bring together schools, social services and the police in order to improve communication and the quality of its social services to achieve by the end of this year a “satisfactory” rating from the children’s services inspectorate Ofsted.

But the biggest problem the borough is facing is the lack of qualified social workers willing to work in the area after Baby P’s scandal. In January, the borough made an urgent appeal to all London councils to lend qualified social workers to ease the recruitment. With the appeal been largely rejected, children’s social directors said they would consider a rescue package to ease the pressure on The Haringey’s Council.