social worker Maria Ward, team manager Gillie Christou and head of safeguarding services Clive Preece were sacked for gross misconduct.

A fifth employee, social worker Sylvia Henry, had no action taken against her because there was no case to answer, the council found.

The General Social Care Council also currently has interim suspension orders against Miss Ward and Miss Christou.

Baby P's mother, 27, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to causing or allowing the toddler's death.

Her boyfriend, 32, who also cannot be named, and Jason Owen, 36, from Bromley, Kent, were found guilty of the same offence. All three are awaiting sentence.

Following the Baby P case the government asked Lord Laming to carry out a nationwide review of child welfare services.

He reported back in March, attacking public bodies for failingOn Wednesday, in another amusing rebuke to Russian diplomatic antics, Britain won an important vote at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Specifically, the United Kingdom defeated a Russian motion calling on Britain to conduct a joint British-Russian investigation into the March 4 nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. The Skripals were poisoned in a small British town by Russian intelligence officers acting under orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin. And while the Russians deny their involvement in the Skripal attack, they know that the U.K. knows that they are responsible.

As an extension, Putin and his sidekick troll/foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, intended the OPCW vote to aggravate Britain and to restore Russia to a position of diplomatic power.

On the aggravation side of things,