A six-month delay in a planned restructure of Haringey social services that would have halved the number of team manager posts from 12 to six created a strained atmosphere, a social work manager told the inquiry.
Dave Duncan, commissioning manager at Haringey social services at the time of Victoria's case, said that the interviews for the six team manager jobs did not take place until September 1999, six months after the restructure was announced. The delay led to team managers not knowing how long they would have a job and social workers not knowing who their managers would be.
Duncan, who was responsible for supervising Carole Baptiste, Lisa Arthurworrey's original team manager, told the inquiry: "I have consistently asked myself whether Carole Baptiste was a good enough manager and whether I supervised her well enough and I have doubts about that."
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