Council where Logan Mwangi was murdered ‘worryingly dependent’ on agency care

Welsh Tories say Bridgend's 1.1m bill for agency social workers in year of five-year-old's death shows risk of inconsistent care

A local authority involved in the care of Logan Mwangi, the five-year-old boy murdered by his mother, her partner and his stepson, spent more than 1m on agency social workers in the year the child was killed, it has emerged.

Bridgend county borough council in south Wales spent 1.1m on agency social workers in 2021/22 compared with 166,000 the year before. So far in this financial year it has spent more than 800,000.