THE latest head of Birmingham children’s social services has vowed to take the action needed to help the department finally lose its ‘failing’ tag.

The city council’s troubled children’s services has been under pressure over a series of high profile deaths of children known to social workers, including Khyra Ishaq and the branding of the department as “inadequate” by Government inspectors.

Last week the director of children’s services Colin Tucker, who was brought in to turn the department round two years ago, was suspended.

Now Eleanor Brazil, interim director of children’s services, has pledged to deliver on the overdue promise to improve children’s social care, recognising that the service may currently be letting down some of the city’s most vulnerable children.

Ms Brazil is credited with transforming Haringay Children’s Services following the Baby Peter tragedy and is now aiming, against a backdrop of children’s services cutbacks, to do the same in Birmingham.