‘Old care records destroyed to create space’

On Thursday the head of Children’s Services, Tony Le Sueur, said he had seen summary documents that indicated some of the paperwork related to more serious cases.

During his second day addressing the panel, chaired by Frances Oldham QC, Mr Le Sueur described the record-keeping problems faced by care institutions from before the Second World War to the present day and said that he had been told that single-sheet summaries had sometimes replaced large historical files relating to cases involving families that required low level intervention.

Read the full story in Friday’s JEP

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