Another man and woman have been convicted of child neglect, recalling the horrific case of Peter Connelly in Haringey.

A WOMAN and man have been jailed for abusing 10 children in Haringey, it was revealed this week.

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The youngsters were taken into police protection and later handed to Haringey Council’s social services after both authorities visited the home on April 24, 2009 - as revelations over the Baby Peter scandal continued to rock the council.

Detectives received the tip-off from someone concerned about the welfare of the children, who were all living at the same address, said a Metropolitan Police spokesman.

The same day they arrested the man and woman, then aged 51 and 38, on suspicion of child neglect, and in November that year charged them both with 10 counts of child neglect - one for each child.

They were jailed at Wood Green Crown Court on October 8 last year.

The woman, now 40, was jailed for 18 months after admitting all 10 counts of neglect.

The 53-year-old man was also jailed for 18 months after admitting five counts of neglect, with the remaining five counts ordered to lie on file.

Neither of them can be named to protect the identities of the abused children, but they will both be eligible to apply for parole this month.

Haringey Council’s Local Safeguarding Children Board, an overarching body set up to ensure the main agencies involved in protecting children work together effectively, did not undertake a Serious Case Review into the abuse “as this case didn’t fully meet the rigorous criteria necessary,” said a spokeswoman for the authority, who added: “However, because of the nature of the case we did put it forward for review by the new pan-London pilot programme testing the way in which serious case reviews are undertaken.”

Councillor Robert Gorrie, Haringey’s Liberal Democrat leader, said: “It looks as though these failures were subsequent to many of the changes made in response to the Baby Peter tragedy. If that is the case then that is very worrying.”

He said his group will “not allow this to be hidden away, and will ensure that the public is given the full facts on whether the council should have done more to protect these 10 children”.

Councillor Rachel Allison, Liberal Democrat spokeswoman for children, added: “It is difficult to believe that Haringey Children’s Services failed to act. Why does it need a member of the public to call the police to get anything done?”

A Haringey Council spokeswoman said: “We are wholly committed to providing the best possible vulnerable children’s service. Central to that determination is a culture of continual learning - as acknowledged by Ofsted in successive reports.

“That’s why we put forward this case - which occurred when things were going badly wrong with our child protection services - for review by the new pan-London pilot programme testing the way in which serious case reviews are undertaken.

“There are always new ways of working to be thought through and considered and we want to be at the forefront of this learning process.

“We will not comment further until the pilot programme has been allowed to run its course fairly and objectively.”