COUNTY councillors approved plans for nine specialist social workers to be recruited in Lancashire, to help combat a steady rise in child abuse.
But the number of new posts was only a third of the original figure planned for introduction. The new staff were to cost £136,000 in a full financial year.
Publicity about cases in Cleveland had put the issue at the top of the council agenda.
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