Local political pressure is ramping up in Leicester to discover the possible impact to vulnerable children of a botched children's services reorganisation.

The concerns from the city's ruling group and opposition Conservative members follow the revelations this week, contained in a draft Ofsted report, that an exodus of 30 Leicester children's service staff last year led to nearly 300 children being left without an allocated social worker.

In the wake of this scandal, which will feature in an Ofsted report to be issued next week, city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby axed deputy mayor Cllr Vi Dempster and ordered the removal of Elaine McHale, who was Leicester's interim director of children's service at the time, from her post as interim director of adult social care.