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| Social workers worried about poor local authority childcare practices will be able to call a special "whistleblower" hotline, Ofsted's chief has pledged. | Social workers worried about poor local authority childcare practices will be able to call a special "whistleblower" hotline, Ofsted's chief has pledged. |
| Christine Gilbert told MPs the confidential service, starting in 2009, would aim to make it easier for staff to report bad practice. | Christine Gilbert told MPs the confidential service, starting in 2009, would aim to make it easier for staff to report bad practice. |
| She was speaking after Ofsted was criticised for giving Haringey council a favourable report in 2007. | She was speaking after Ofsted was criticised for giving Haringey council a favourable report in 2007. |
| Baby P, who was on the council's child protection register, died last year. | |
| Ms Gilbert, Ofsted's Chief Inspector, told the Children and Families' select committee: "We want to make it easier for front line staff to tell us when things go wrong. | |
| "We are now considering the introduction of a confidential whistleblowers' hotline in 2009 for social workers and other front line professionals to alert us to any serious concerns about practice that fails to ensure the safety and the welfare of those that we serve." | |
| Ofsted, which carries out official inspections of schools and councils, has come under fire after it emerged that it awarded Haringey a "good" rating just weeks after the death of Baby P. | |
| The little boy died after months of sustained abuse by his mother, stepfather and a lodger, all of whom were found guilty of causing or allowing his death. | |
| Ms Gilbert has previously said Ofsted was "misled" by Haringey which "hid behind" false data on the way it treated vulnerable children. |