"SIGNIFICANT and sustained improvement" has been made to child protection in Haringey, Government inspectors have said today.

It follows a two-week inspection by both Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission in January.

The report judges safeguarding services to be adequate with "good prospects for improvement" with the same grades also applying to services for looked after children.

Councillor Lorna Reith, Haringey Council's cabinet member for children & young people, said: "We implemented fully the recommendations of the serious case reviews into the tragic death of Baby Peter in 2007 – which we have accepted could, and should, have been prevented.

"It is in this context that we have set about the rebuilding of services designed to protect vulnerable children. We take heart from this latest confirmation that we are making progress and are heading in the right direction."

She added: £Clearly there is no room for complacency – and we will certainly be taking on board inspectors' request to improve in certain key areas. I can assure local people that our commitment to improvement is a strong as ever – and will be acted upon."

Ofsted inspectors praised NHS Haringey for implementing better systems in hospital accident and emergency to identify children and young people that may be at risk of harm.

Newly-recruited health visitors were also showing good promise, the report said.

NHS Haringey chairman Richard Sumray said: "Ofsted's report rates Haringey overall as adequate with good capacity for improvement, and gives us a firm base from which to continue improving our children's safeguarding service.

"Areas for health services singled out for praise include our partnership working which has strengthened safeguarding provisions in Haringey; and good arrangements for training GPs in safeguarding, with a designated safeguarding lead in each practice in the borough."