"We are working to establish a network and a system of protection of children and also to try to report cases of abuse and exploitation and try to save these children, put them in transit centers, try to recontact the family, and put them back with the family or with the extend family when the parents are not there or are not suitable to take care of the children,".

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Its president Moira Gibb said that there were 30, 000 children on the child protection register and 50, 000 cases that social services were working with where there were child protection concerns.

BBC: mother and child

Inspectors were sent into Haringey to make their assessments and concluded that although there were some problems with a shortage of social workers in Haringey and with the speed in which children's cases were picked up, they judged child protection in Haringey to be "adequate".

BBC: Inspecting the inspectors

The BBC's Andrew Hosken said children's protection charities such as Kidscape had found that publicity surrounding cases such as that of missing Cambridgeshire schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and other high-profile disappearances had increased parents' concerns.

BBC: 'Stranger danger' highlighted