Social work boss struck off after failing to protect vulnerable children

A social work boss employed to improve child protection in Dundee has been struck off after leaving some of the city’s most vulnerable youngsters at risk of physical and sexual abuse.

Brian Stevenson was stripped of his registration as a social worker after a probe found his misconduct had endangered 15 children, from eight families, aged between 2 and 13.

A catalogue of serious failings were recorded and made public during almost three years of investigations, hearings and deliberation.

The most detailed failings relate to a seven-year-old girl, identified only as AA during the hearings, whose plight he said to have failed to adequately investigate.

Despite repeated warnings of sexual abuse it took two years before the youngster was finally taken into care and criminal proceedings raised against her father.

Dundee City Council said it “no longer employed” Mr Stevenson and would be “studying the details of the findings” from the Scottish Social Services Council to see what lessons must be learned.

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