Council's social services criticised

PETERBOROUGH - The quality of services Cambridgeshire County Council provided for six year old Rikki Neave and his family "fell…

PETERBOROUGH - The quality of services Cambridgeshire County Council provided for six year old Rikki Neave and his family "fell below acceptable levels", a report said yesterday. The report came as a third social services worker involved with Rikki - who was found strangled to death in woodland outside Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in November 1994 - and his family was suspended.

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