Birmingham City Council has admitted the safety of 1,400 at risk children cannot be guaranteed. The revelation came after a review found a collective failure by agencies to prevent the death of Keanu Williams, two, at the hands of his mother.
There are 1,400 children deemed to be at risk who are not safe in Britain's second largest city because the council is unable to "guarantee the standard of safeguarding work", the head of children's services in Birmingham admitted to ITV News.
The shocking admission comes after a damning report into the death of two-year-old Keanu Williams, who was beaten to death by his mother, found he became "invisible" to the authorities in Birmingham.
Peter Hay, Birmingham City Council's acting strategic director for children, said: "The position facing children in Birmingham tonight is very frail.
"We do not have enough social workers able to do enough great social work and that means we are not able to adequately guarantee the standard of the safeguarding work that we are putting to children today. "
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